Molly Hankwitz on Sat, 11 Apr 2020 10:51:53 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> Contact tracing, Silicon Valley style


trump and cohorts have failed to produce widespread testing (which has
worked so well in germany, korea, australia, and other countries to
find out who is who - and instead - want google and apple to produce
increased tracking and surveillance - of the population. hmmm. well,
isolated dystopia as been coming for a while --with its own systems
of authoritarianism, surveillance, and punitive standards - i guess
COVID-19 is the ooze seeping from the swamp in another form. covid-19
IS the over-extension of capital in medical form. what hasn't been
stolen yet, might well be stolen soon.

molly hankwitz


On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 3:19 PM Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com>
wrote:

> To judge from the article pasted below, the direction being taken
> comes directly from Singapore's TraceTogether app, with a central
> focus on recording Bluetooth contacts between phones. It's unknown
> what kinds of supplementary measures might subsequently be added
> (apparently in Singapore there are quite authoritarian police measures
> taken in terms of individual surveillance). Is the Bluetooth idea just
> a fig leaf? Will Google and Apple really abstain from using their
> existing geolocation capacities? How could vague and imprecise contact
> tracing work in the absence of any administrative follow-up?


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