Re: <nettime> Contact tracing, Silicon Valley style

[Molly Hankwitz <mollyhankwitz@gmail.com>]

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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