In fight against coronavirus, governments embrace surveillance
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(Worthy News) – Chinese-style surveillance is coming to a neighborhood near you.
From drones barking orders at park-goers to tracing people’s movements through cellphones, Western governments are rushing to embrace sophisticated surveillance tools that would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago.
In the European Union, home to the world’s strictest privacy regimen, leaders have taken the unprecedented step of asking telecoms companies to hand over mobile phone data so they can track population movements and try to stop the spread. [ Source: Politico (Read More…) ]
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