As more people adopt wearable tech, the data produced by the sensors can help public health officials, especially during a crisis.
Read more about how a health company helped quantify the recent quarantine's impact on Americans physical activity.
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In this week's issue of @TheEconomist, they suggest that surveillance capitalism "is no longer seen as exploitative, but essential to tackle the virus".
Perhaps their journalists should speak with @EFF to better understand what is at stake.
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The @UN's top privacy expert spoke about the negative consequences of authoritarian surveillance during a crisis and urged people to "use every means they have to influence both the policies and the laws that are made that affect them.”
Read more: independent.co.uk/news/world…
As @harari_yuval explains, "When people are given a choice between privacy and health, they will usually choose health."
But @LeoKelion writes that the short-term urgency for access to data should not come at the cost of digital privacy & civil liberty:
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This is why @accessnow is calling for Zoom to provide a transparency report. So we can all see what they use this information for. theverge.com/2020/3/19/21186…
Q: How do you have permission to pull data from other sources?
A: Depending on the data, it is either directly collected or imported via third-party apps, but you can also manually add or import data.
Read more: askatlys.com/faqs
Recently, a biker's location data falsely placed him near a crime scene. This is an example of how lack of control over our personal data can violate the right to due process.
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Data is one of the only assets that we have no control over. The recent FCC action against telecom companies is a positive step towards protecting the privacy and security of consumers.
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Privacy and control over personal data can also build a smarter digital future. In Europe, they are "developing tools including cryptography and blockchain to let citizens gain not just access to, but control over how their personal data is shared."
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