corey, buddy was upset over how english fans booed during the italian national anthem and saw a greater symbolism to live in lucy. it gave me the sensation that they were leaving in the european union for a 2nd time. ah, the larger meaning is there for many. still the victory that will live on and most italian heart in mind. adarine algebra, rome ah, how fast they are here. and i'll just see where these are the headlines. at least 58 people now confirm dead and dozens injured. after a fire swept through a coven, 19 isolation ward and southern iraq. the fire is now under control. in nasiriyah is the 2nd hospital father that is killed cove in 1900 patients in iraq. this here more from the law, had in baghdad. the reason for this is the same that happened in

a probably in edna happy hospital and but that badly stored oxygen cylinders being get miss used the know prevention measures, no proper equipment, no safety equipment, no safety measures. that's according to many people, including health officials, headlines, south africa. the military has been deployed after protests triggered by the jailing of prison. jacob zoom returned violence. they 6 people have been killed and hundreds arrested during days of riots and losing. in 2 provinces. the current president, several run before, has warned the unrest could result in food and medicine shortages in the next few weeks. record number of people in france, booking appointments to get their corona, virus vaccines after the president announced new measures to curb infections from next month, proof of vaccination or negative test will be needed to enter restaurants,

shopping centers, or to travel on long distance trains. meanwhile, england will lift almost all corona virus restrictions for next monday, despite the number of cases rising to the highest level and months. u. k prime minister bars johnson says it's the right time to do it, but it's still edging caution. but all legal limits on social contact will go large, venues will reopen, and the work from home guidance will come to an end and a member of jordan's royal family and a man who was once the king's top advisor and sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempting to destabilize the monarchy, the courts of the pair were conspiring to put king bellows, half brother, prince hums on the throne. cases shocked. jordan and the ruling hashemite family, which has been seen as a beacon of stability in the region. there you go, you're up to date. so the headlines here analysis era sticker next, for people in power on county, the call south salvador legalize the big coin where they proved to be an economic

bonanza for the latin american country. but when it become like this paradise, europe, i watering tech valuation raise bubble fears plus lambda, gamey, goat, electric county. the cough on al jazeera the since early 2020. the world has been in the grip of a panoramic that has cost millions of lives and affected billions more of us through economic contraction and restrictions on our movements. much of his story is well documented, but the crisis is thrown up a question that so far receive little attention have measures taken in the name of defeating covey. 19, also done lasting damage to our civil liberties. we've been in search of ounces.

ah, the, the corona virus pandemic has false governments around the world to take extra ordinary matches closing cities, banning travel and making people stay at home a month at a time, ah, in the race to defeat the disease. they've also had together huge amounts of data about whereabouts and i'll stay to help me digital contact. pressing tools offered the opportunity to address larger numbers of contacts in a short period of time and to provide real time picture of the spread of the virus

. but privacy campaign is now asking if all the new laws, technology and data gathering has been strictly essential. the way i like to frame what's been going on since the initial stages of the panoramic has been 1st government panic and they panics because they recognize that they didn't have the infrastructure being needed. and so what did they do? they use the infrastructure they had, which was intelligence agencies, policing. and in the absence of any capability of testing, they thought, is there a way for technology to solve this problem? what we know is the crisis is the ground on which long time a ration of our liberties see that it can feel really difficult making civil liberties arguments in the context of a crisis. you know, whether that is 911, which we've all learned an awful lot from. whether it is dependent because you're

often painted out, you don't care about public safety or public health. but exactly how about civil liberties been eroded? what's been going on under the cover of cove it and where me. back in march 2020 the high tech city state of singapore was one of the most enthusiastic adopters of using mobile phones for contact tracing. play your part in fighting coby lighting with just to simple step one, download 3 together and help those around you to set it up to turn on your bluetooth. and it is as simple as that has in many countries the government said the at was voluntary, worked entirely on anonymized idea, and he's only tracking the virus is not the user. and that really is no job cation, no other personal data is collected. but digital rights activists like li ting was taking their word for it. when the tech experts examined the code for it,

they found that it wasn't doing all the things that it would do. so for instance, that data would not be shared would be totally anonymous and so on. they found that the data was shared more widely than it was supposed to do with. so some government agencies at 1st take up with low until the app was made mandatory to access public areas like shopping mode. now it's used by nearly 80 percent of the population. but in january 2021, the government admitted the police had access the data for murder investigation, police forces, and pollard under the criminal procedure code to a kid any data. and that includes the chose to get a data for criminal investigations, even in normally creation, singapore. that was concern. it also brought up the question for people. so what their data has been used and what types of investigations can we trust that this is

the only time that this has happened? at the time i was volunteering quite have me with sex locust fights, organization. and one of my concerns was that the data on contact tracing could be used to identify sex workers and their clients. this has your trace together history. so over the past 25 days, these are the number of times that devices with trace together have been pinged. and given that textbook as life and singapore largely, i was, i had some concerns. there is evidence to suggest digital contact rating can be more effective, the manual tracing, but privacy campaign is the these methods of surveillance without believe their initial years. that's going to be one of the legacies of cobra, the whole idea that your mobile phone and app and the telecommunications infrastructure designed for you to enjoy spending your time communicating with

others will be used to enforce your own detention in the future. in israel, the government also employed mobile phone contact tracing, but use the method, the raid even more privacy concerns. while ordinary people struggled on the heavily police locked downs. the pandemic let prime minister benjamin netanyahu divert public attention from fraud and bribery allegations, but demonstrations against corruption and the government handling of the pandemic erupted anyway. the will bear on a regular protest. during one of the lockdown went outside meetings were permitted . she met with fellow activists. this is what we were doing that night. there was a fire at the birthday party of one of my friends then the police just came in. we're starting to harass us and just wanted to leave a few days later,

i got the text message with the date and the hours you were near someone who was tested positive for girl and a virus. you have to immediately start a warranty. and this might seem normal for many countries, but an emergency regulation had allowed the shin bad israel secret service to run its track and praise program in the united cub love, but actually sheet lender feel civilians cannot opt out. they can't even off it. it's just the secret service tracking all civilians, anybody within israel, they are the only democracy in the world to this day that was using their secret services to do this. shit are often accused of breaching human rights law in their treatment of palestinians. but the revelation showed that they don't only operate in the west bank and occupied territory. the reason this happened is because the shouldn't bet already is tracing people instead of waiting for something new to be

created, they already have a tool within the shin bet. the 2 was a secret years long program to monitor telecommunications across israel and palestine. i felt really angry because i had a feeling that because we were there, like many people from the process, it happened just about this event. it's an open question whether she was forced into quarantine because the state was targeting protesters or merely protecting citizen from a deadly disease, but civil rights campaign and say that we've been doing both. nobody would know in a democracy, can't see that there's a surveillance state in the sense that a government contracts certain people. this can lead to a situation where the government knows about your sexual orientation about your political orientation. and what it can do is lead to freezing affect the phenomenon where people don't want to go outside and do certain things. let's say protests, because they have

a fear of being tracked off to several legal challenges. the government says the shin bet surveillance has now been scaled back, but the scandal opened at least some israeli eyes to the way palestinians routinely monitored. i think that we finally have to fight against it in all areas. a doesn't matter if it's happened to, and israel, the citizen, or to someone in the occupied territories. this is really, really bad. this is a slippery slope at the words violating human rights in the early stages of the pandemic. other government also experimented with electronic mass tracking, but with only marginal success. ultimately, it was recognized that this level of non surveillance doesn't actually help you with a pandemic. so they decided to resort to what they do often as the next step, which is rely extensively on industry to sell them toys. you also show that,

you know, maybe i would recommend you conduct for the industry. many governments tend to with biometrics, which uses unique personal traits like a face iris fingerprint to identify people for china, which was already openly using facial recognition. and it's big cities. the pandemic turbocharged the roll out in smaller towns across the country. the claim, the biometric and contactless transactions, a safer has obvious appeal for airline, keen to get people back into the air, says the ceo of quantas, contact travel people. now we see a huge move to that. yours mirrors in the space of a few more. we think that is a change that will stay. ready there forever. it's also a change coming to retail. this leading russian supermarket has teamed up with visa, so you can pay for your shopping with your fate. a lot of it is

a sort of form of tech solution and them, which is the idea that technology because it shawnee because it's new, contains all the problems in many people. so the unquestioningly trust technology or assume that it's going to be the most efficient or the best solution. but critics say biometrics is an industry with a checkered past around pre 911 where the facial recognition was being touted by police, particularly in the united states as the great solution to producing problems without recognizing that their own force was turned off the tech because it wasn't actually working, then 911 happens just months later, and all of a sudden governments are reaching for facial recognition in fingerprinting. so we deployed them at borders. you put them in passports without ever asking who does it work for? when does it work? when does it fail? what happens to somebody who it fails for today to get detained because something doesn't match. the biometric industry same says goes where there is oppertunity

money and few questions. a few years ago by industry is looking for a new market and a then decide to go for the next great domain of policy making, where we don't care what happens to people. and that was in the migration sector and refugees in refugee camps. so our refugee agencies and, and governments for sponsoring refugee agencies to deploy fingerprinting, iris, and facial recognition. and again, i got a close up view of some of these in the, in refugee camps. the only people who didn't realize that the technology didn't work where the policymakers, everybody else knew the technology wasn't working, but it didn't stop the sale, the reliance and the people's lives based around yes. now did the system say you're allowed and order the system denied because it failed campaign to say these systems are often 1st tried out away from critical eyes in the west like biometric voting, which has been trialed in afghanistan, uganda, and here in iraq with a panoramic maybe we can use facial recognition with people's faces covered. maybe

we can use cameras to attract people across cities to do contact tracing. and in a post pandemic your, we can use facial recognition at borders. we can use facial recognition sharps, we can use a facial recognition everywhere. and then we've forgotten why we deployed it with biometrics and bias is hated. there is a real risk that i'll kind of personal identity faces our fingerprints. the irises, we can't change those, they will be locked into a system forever. they can be exposed to by, because they can be supported by on because governments and them with stock has no way of resetting your face. it's not like a password. this is a kind of a permanent solution to a temporary problem. the, the temporary becoming permanent is just one of the consent campaign of have around the chest data. still a join computer system fail using the personal data held by britain national health

service, where you live and have yourself. as many i mentioned before, you know, the old personal information on over 60000000 people often going back decades has, has one of the biggest stores of patient records going back through time. globally . it says standouts in terms of the day 3 has, and it was billions of pounds. and they, sir, is the oil, as we know, dates or is money. normally any test data can only be used by those treating a patient. but when the pandemic struck, the rules were loosened. in march 2020, then a chest announced that they were setting up being called the cove at 19 dates. and they dentist in to 5 contracts with different tech companies and that, that data store was going to be the kind of single source of truth about the pandemic. for the m h f, the data store pulls together information from across the fast in a chest, including confidential details given to the 111 helpline,

and even tech company location data. this would supposedly help ministers allocate resources by providing them with a real time dashboard of all aspects of the pandemic. but from the outset, almost every element of a worried privacy campaign as it was extremely vague. we didn't know what dates was going into it. we didn't know how it was being used and it was very secretive and emerged start. the 1st contract had gone to the parents here who built the backbone . this for just one pound, which soundcloud trisic to foundry is a software that allows organizations to bring that data together and then enables they use to conduct sophisticated analytics and operations on top of the unified data talent. they have been criticized for providing its data mining capability to the cia and the us border force division ice, responsible for detaining and expelling migrants. they are not particularly well

known for health. they are much more well known in relation to their defense contracts. by tech b, u. s. police forces, they are not the company that certainly we would immediately think would be appropriate. and indeed, we don't think are appropriate for an h. s. contract. but the british government didn't seem that concerned when asked by a technology generalist what palin, to my hope to get from a one pound contract. the secretary of state for health replied, the honest truth is, there is no way we would have been able to cope this pandemic until in the way that we have been able to without the support of the companies. they've been absolutely brilliant. i put it's given the platforms that we need, and lots of them gave over their time and their capability for public benefits and pride by 9 rosa curling organization. foxglove, a u. k. law firm set up to challenge big tech, took legal proceedings which both the government to reveal the contract,

which was for a pilot or trial project. the contract also detailed the types of dates that being used. what we did say was that the coven, 19 date, still was collecting data on political affiliation. religious beliefs is correcting information about criminal convictions, ethnic data, employment data. there is no understanding of why elliptical religious data was need, is the coven 19 data tool? and much of this information is relevant to scientists. battling the pandemic. dr. palmer k works on britain faxing program. we have no interest in what people buy or affiliate, or any of that type of thing. we're just interested in the virus. how many cases are being picked up in a certain place? and then using that data to try to target intervention. it may need the genome

sequencing that is guiding what we do. privacy campaign also worried about mission creek. the one set up this huge system with continuing operation off to the pandemic and expand into other areas. the government promised it was temporary, and then pounding to signed a new deal for 23000000 pounds. rosa went back to call and was allowed to see the new contract. paper was made clear that the mission crate, the fact that the contract itself set out and confirmed the purpose of the day to the store was going to be increased and widens. the other issue is we're going to also be look tap. so the exit business monitoring, as usual, whatever that may mean relevant, pandemic flew the government decline to respond to us directly. but as the story was unfolding, the said, strict data rules apply to everyone involved in helping in this critical task. the

companies do not control the data and are not committed to use or share it for their own purposes. at the end of the health emergency, their work will either be deleted or returned to dna. in april 2021 talented became an official u. k. government supplier. they've also signed contract with other european governments, including greece and the netherlands. the help ministries of the world are just, you know, there's some prime targets for this industry. that is, they're sitting on a lot of data. don't know what to do with it. and then suddenly a sales person is knocking on the door saying, hey, we have experience from building policing systems, border systems, immigration systems on taking mounds of data, mining it, and finding something interesting, why don't use us and we will help you. but it's our most sensitive and personal in our health data, and it's being used to essentially build the next generation of profiling

technology. but it's not just government that are accused of monitoring people under the cover of coded. good afternoon you for me to brian. how can i assist you today as millions around the world and now working from home, like bryan unions of raising concerns about the new forms of surveillance, billing. we'll see what we can find. brian's employer requires him to account for every 2nd of his day. so when i go to click into what's called the codes, it's basically notify them where i am and i think there's about going to the bathroom for me. i'm going to extra when i get back as a few just going where are you? when's your time get back on calls? so could absolutely be monitored and we'll cool send to work and long been heavily monitored, but it's intensified with the move of working from home without a metal saying that all the gangs were pounds and a list of state monetary reasons. i don't want people,

i've never met to see my much. i think it's reasonable. the social agenda element. i don't know if i was a woman. i wouldn't necessarily want some man. i've never met being able to just randomly view my webcam and in a university, strathclyde survey, 45 percent of old people working from home in the u. k. and said they are remotely watched in the empty face of the prospect union. andrew pay is worried. what we've seen in the last year is that hand reach out from traditional industries where micro management is more common into all walks of life, whether it's office workers working at home, whether it's other phones professionals that study by digital rights organization. top 10 vpn showed us sales of surveillance software increased by 51 percent during the pandemic. you've got software now that can measure your key strikes, how fast you're typing on your laptop or what word you're typing. it is easy now for employees to check your emails for key words,

whether you're chatting to different workers in who you're coming to. brian gives us a flavor of what this feels like. we have, i guess, an employee for them when the web or, and i was that was one of the few times people were right angry. and there was a said that disappears. so that just vanishing suddenly. and there was been a 2nd fed, under people with enough fed saying i've been told by the pitch is the analytics allow companies to improve stuff productivity, thus increasing profit. but brian thinks employers benefit in other ways. it's also a sort of repressive measure. i think workers are much less likely to organize are much less likely to get industrialized. we can speak to each other. this tracking is a global phenomena and amazon closed up roll when announced the rollout of a i enabled cameras in the usa, the monitor neighborhood, and their drivers pressing and holding the driver alert button for 5 seconds. we'll

turn the driver facing camera off. so you could have privacy while taking a break turn of ours has been the opportunity for businesses and governments to massively increase their power to increase a surveillance to increase their kind of control of every kind of minute area of our lives. and to roll that back is going to be very difficult. once these things orange juice for the greater good fry and safety are in health, in the guise of public health. civil rights advocates the this surveillance will be extended by the same measures. many countries hope will allow travel to review health passports. many leaders see them as a key to normality. the almost empty results of southern europe have helped convince the european union. with this digital certificate, we aim to help member states reinstate the freedom of movement in a safe,

responsible and trusted. israel has reopened gyms and hotels with its green pulse. currently, a q alco showing vaccination state many including vaccine scientists think they are inevitable elsewhere. i don't personally like the idea of boxing passport, but obviously of another country and that we show we have been back. and if we want to go to their country, we would have to have as part of obviously for local us. i think it's a terrible, i get, i would discriminate against people. but the civil rights, 10 painters, the dangers go much deeper than discrimination, wouldn't be a side effect of this discrimination is the whole point to base the whole point to the co. the hospital would be to create a 2 tier societies where the wealthy with the shiny co passes can go to the special loc, sedated only. hotels blocks nice only restaurants in the airplanes and never kind

of continued privilege life. while those who are unable to show the right digital pass are locked out society permanently. in fact, critic fair all of the intrusive new technology, the da paid during the pandemic is here to stay. you don't build all that character then just easily shut it down. the moment that the w h o says it's no longer a pandemic. 911 allowed for the use of identification at borders and for transport in a way that we've never had. and what governments have never had the capacity to do before with the add the next desirable layer, which is health, medical and personal detail, personal information. and so we'll have built the infrastructure for all of that. and all of a sudden you have the perfect identity system involving biometrics, modern software, smartphones, all the fight, a pen demick, that one would hope that if you deploy the vaccine sufficiently, you don't need

a passport anymore. but you'll have an identity system as the end result of this entire initiative. the a mineral central to the quest for clean energy. a key ingredient for the production of electric car batteries, cobalt extracting it is dangerous. profitable, with global demand set the skyrocket. people in power investigates, claims that industrial mines contracting the precious material needed for cleaner energy, are in fact, poisoning the environment with dire health consequences for those living in their shadow. the cost of coal, both people and pattern

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