Juno News - Is mass surveillance the new norm？

Mass surveillance of the public is not just something communist authoritarian China does these days, or something you see in a dystopian movie, but it's happening right here right now in North America and across the western world as governments try and grapple with the coronavirus outbreak.

00:00:00.000 folks there's a lot of concerns right now that mass surveillance of the public is something

00:00:09.300 that's not just something communist authoritarian china does these days or something you see in a

00:00:13.840 dystopian movie but it's happening right here right now in north america and across the western

00:00:19.520 world as governments try and grapple with the coronavirus outbreak and try and enforce social

00:00:24.300 distancing measures when they feel like some members of the public aren't following along

00:00:29.880 toronto mayor john torrey he talked about the possibility of tapping into cell phone towers

00:00:34.560 to look at where people were what they were getting up to prime minister justin show was asked about

00:00:39.080 this last week by media he said he doesn't think he knows of anything in the works for it right now

00:00:44.100 but he refused to rule it out i want to read a tweet by scott gottlieb he's a doctor and he was also the

00:00:49.640 commissioner of the fda in the u.s from 2017 to 2019 he writes on social media that covid19 it's

00:00:57.260 not going to go away it'll infect the southern hemisphere as as uh they winter and it will want

00:01:02.580 to come back to the u.s in the fall okay but then we'll have a massive surveillance system by then he

00:01:07.280 says and i believe more than one drug to be uh both preventing and treating the infection will be

00:01:13.000 available and he just kind of talks about this surveillance system as an aside like oh great we're

00:01:17.340 going to have this great tool and we're like what really there was no caveats about the challenges

00:01:22.020 with all of this i want to read another tweet by ann kavukian she's formerly ontario's privacy 0.60

00:01:27.240 commissioner she says strong end dates and sunset clauses must be put in place for all of these

00:01:34.120 tracking measures that are being invoked as a result of the coronavirus she makes an excellent

00:01:39.480 point the new york times had a feature on this organization called cancer health they're doing

00:01:44.280 something kind of interesting where they have a thermometer that people can test to see you know

00:01:48.820 what their fever is just a thermometer but it's connected to an app it sends the data back to their

00:01:53.640 firm and they have this grid that's showing the national fever rates all across america right now

00:01:58.900 it's very interesting to see that where lockdowns are in place strict ones across the u.s

00:02:04.040 fever rates are kind of going down in places where there's not lockdowns they're going up fever is

00:02:08.880 of course one of the symptoms of the coronavirus so it suggests hey these lockdowns are actually

00:02:13.680 working okay cool but it's interesting to see that we now have this big data paying attention

00:02:19.760 to people's fevers people would have consented to use this device of course but it brings around a lot

00:02:26.540 of questions about mass surveillance moving forward and kavukian makes a point you're implementing all

00:02:32.540 this but let's also make sure that we don't let it stay that we say bye-bye to it once this era is behind us

Juno News - April 02, 2020

Is mass surveillance the new norm？

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