The World Is Uninstalling Privacy
Interestingly, the privacy wall has collapsed. Yes, no one is discussing it at scale as the defenders of privacy are hibernating. Israel wants to have a law to make it legal to minimally "track people", for maximum efficiency. The Israel's Supreme Court only wanted a law in the books; the government can go ahead with its tracking.
Australia rolled out its contact tracing app.More than 1.1 million users had downloaded the COVIDSafe app within hours of its launch last night. The government has said that 40% of the population would need to use the app for maximum effectiveness. Meanwhile, Israel’s Supreme Court said the government must legislate its use of Covid-19 phone-tracking and begin drafting the law by April 30. (Quartz)
Last week, France asked Apple to make iOS less "private" to help its own contact-tracing solution. China made a mistake for not patenting mass tracking. Yes, the world criticized it but it seems China can see tomorrow better. All humans are the same: we just need incentives to change behavior.
Meanwhile, the U.S. "Federal Trade Commission has begun sending the equivalent of cease and desist letters to companies who push coronavirus products that purport to treat and/or prevent coronavirus infections. The FTC is concerned that a massive army of newly out-of-work Americans looking for an extra source of income will join the ranks of multi-level marketers pushing dubious products. As many as ten such firms have been hit with the warnings, the New York Times reports" (Fortune).
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In this era, anytime there is an attack/war on humans, some part of our freedom is lost in different forms to win that war.
Sadly, this isn't the first and it won't be the last...the privacy we lost to 9/11 is still very fresh.
Now, the World is uninstalling privacy 'at scale'...and that makes this loss of privacy unprecedented.
Thank you Prof.