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. and almost every stage of this pandemic technology has played a major role in keeping us going. can't go to the office because we look down. work with colleagues over slack. need hansen, a ties our face mask. all of the next day delivery on amazon school university, closed classes. and now happening from the mundane, everyday aspects of life, grocery shopping, entertainment, chatting with friends and family to the much more difficult task of trying to track and control. this virus big tick has been front and center. but in a world where technology has already been developing to foster regulations and even academic expertise to keep up, it seems the pen demik has left a scarily exposed to the pitfalls of

a sometimes excessively automated and computerized 12 ah, the algorithms, big data, artificial intelligence, these days the tech industry seems to have a 6 for almost every problem we face. and while many of these tools made our lives and miserably easier, more efficient, even more fun, we've also come up against something called technological solution is a concept that sees technology playing the superhero and savior in almost every situation. kick rider and intellectual of getting more results has been riding about it. so it's something that i saw as a dominant trend in how we think about the financial of technology. and the way in which we think is defined by enlarge by the garage clapper. so silicon valley and

digital culture invalid has data and by and large, this is an imagination, that's very constraint. it imagines problems data very narrowly defined. so we're being told, or example, the climate change as the product of us. not turning off the light with being told that, you know, it's the consequence of us not reciting properly since the problem said, define in that's about an hour away. it's very easy to think of a solution that will solve them. and that solution would normally come in the form of an app, and that app will essentially try to address something that's relatively low hanging fruit at a small tweak in how users. so citizens behave, it does not tackle any of the more structural, more fundamental, more difficult parts of the political process and get something that also earned

the company behind the solutions, quite a lot of money. so with this my fast, it's of course not surprising that the car in crisis related to call it 19 has generated an abundance of solution. is ecology. one of the most urgent problems in the early days, the pen demik was how to track and trace the spread of the corona virus. think about the she is the size of that problem. for every infected person, city, a country information would need to be gathered about where they'd been recently or whom they'd been in contact with. if there were people who've been in close contact with the clothing patient, well the lead me to be found in advice to self oscillate, or to take any other health precautions. and let's say if one of those people have found to have developed symptoms, well then the process would have to start afresh. clearly contact casing is cumbersome and when you have to do it at scale and with speed, it can seem a near impossible task. this makes it appear like the perfect problem for

technology to take on. so conduct tracing is an extraordinarily old and very sensible way of going about tracking and tracing. i spoke with shawn mcdonald, who spent more than 10 years building, deploying and critiquing, mobile technology and humanitarian disasters. busters, infectious disease control, when the patient has positive interview, a person to know where they've been during that period. and then we use that information to try and track down other people that might have had contact in terms of the big change in contact tracing apps from, from analog to digital is that we're moving from and a process that connects people to treatment to a process that communicates risk and communicate in rest in the absence and treatment capacity has a very different effect on a population. it can cause fear, it can cause people to go see more treatment and they otherwise my and so i think that there's a lot to be examined about. the fundamental sort of assumption that go into the

digital transformation that has stopped governments and health authorities from jumping on board from italy to india, more than $150.00 on an app enabled systems have been developed to track the spread of covered 19. some researches claim that in places like south career and taiwan, they've helped identify covered what's and the close contacts of patients. but it's sure points out from his own experience monitoring the bowler in 2014 know technologies. perfect. certainly not tech that is rushed out at the heart of a pandemic under the pressure of politics and the threat of bad publicity in the bowl response. i think it was very early days in understanding a lot of the, the algorithmic modeling to play. and i think that just leveraging the coven response with good intentions are everywhere. the good intentions are not good science. rolling out a series of there may provide a coherent overview of something as complex as the transmission of the disease is

no small order. in the best of circumstances. and so, not only do we not have the sort of facility to evaluate the technology itself, we very rarely have the ability to understand in the context in which during this pandemic, rapid access to data has been crucial in helping to understand this new string of corona bars, how contagious it is, what his behaviors encourage spread, and how effective physical distances can be. but the listening of privacy regulations, and in some cases the outright neglect of privacy requirements to enable quick access to all this data has brought on a storm of criticism. now if a tough day is a digital rights researcher based in billing, so i would say the number one major concern about deploying chaps is the privacy concern. what data is being collected? whereas it being stored, which authorities have access to this data for how long are they keeping the data and collecting that data. and it is going to be used beyond its purpose. in no way

the government contact tracing app called smith stop, went from being aggressively pushed by the state in april, being hastily and very publicly rolled back in june when the wage and data protection authority cited numerous serious privacy violations. among them was a needless collection of precise location information, sometimes in real time, other apps in places like cutoffs, singapore, india, have all so far failed the data privacy test to give people the choice between right and health and rights of privacy is it both caught me and trying to establish a hierarchy of human rights, we shouldn't be making choices, you know, should i saved my life and be in good health, or should i that are 5 my privacy or just feel that we are being monitored and the government knows about our movements which people we are interacting with, where are we going to create such killing effect location data is often some of the most re done

a fiber data that we create when added to other types of data. it can be used to target often very specific way. so we don't allow just anybody to get access to the technology problems that we're seeing trying to be are imperfect. and that's a very sympathetic problem. i think most of us would agree that we don't want to infect other people. and that if you can help me identify people more effectively and that's a good use of our data. the challenge, of course, is that the transmission behavior because we don't know it is very difficult to know how to model it in data in ways that would effectively roll out in technology . i think that we have a little frank for, for talking about the harms of technology. and so a lot of times what we're talking about are, is the private or is it secure in the data architecture? centralized, refused on to the broader questions are, are we meaningfully impacting the response? are we helping you know,

reduce mortality or you can increasing the capacity of responders to be effective? and if we're not doing those things, then is the technology worth letting out of back in march at a time when pandemic panic was relatively new and felt particularly anxiety in juicing israel deployed a contact tracing system that cuts straight past privacy regulations in a move that was unique in the world contact tracing in the country was not handled solely by the ministry of health or crisis committee. the government got the shin bit, israel's internal security service involved. every time in israeli tested positive for clover 19 the patient's details, name, id number, and mobile phone number would be passed onto the ship bit. and that's when something called the tool came into play. it's a classified and previously undisclosed intelligence database that's been collecting information on citizens for nearly 2 decades originally designed for national security efforts. the tool works like

a dragnet gathering metadata from telecom providers, voice calls, text messages, internet browsing, history, and crucially for digital contact tracing. location data via gps tracking or mobile phone networks. while the content of the conversations and messages are exempt from collection, the abundance of personally identifying information is still clearly too much too detailed and unnecessary for the task at hand. citizens also didn't sign up for the tracking system. and crucially what table to opt out. i spoke with human rights lawyer, sharon abraham, the executive director of the association of civil rights in israel, in the original version of the regulations, the ministry of how could she best to track your locations in routes of those who are and everyone that was in their contact with them in the past 2 weeks that investigated and transferred to the ministry with the names and numbers of those

persons and the ministry would draw in the proximity message. they must start warranty for 14 days, it's really strange. i imagine my neighbor, well maybe we're doing a less than 2 meters from each other. maybe many hours a day, although we haven't seen each other, we didn't speak with each other. i might get a message saying important scene. one of the things that's important about the israeli case because they are a very sophisticated technology culture already and they have very advanced intelligence tools. and so one of the main risks here is that we're starting something that seems like it's aimed in public health and designed, measuring the spread of disease. and very quickly becomes about measuring people the bit. i mean, the government body itself is very opaque. there's very little transparency, there's very little oversight. there is also when you are deploying technologies or

taking measures, but could infringer people, human rights, they need to be a certain condition. i mean, one of them is having come to the closet, which basically mean an end date to the technology is being used and transparent and clear understanding of which government agencies have access to this data. and how is it being used? civil society groups including the association for civil rights and israel sounded the alarm in mid march petitioning the supreme court that the country had ventured into dangerous privacy infringing territory. israeli doctors also voice their objection in a joint letter to parliament. these rel, association of public health physicians, and these reli medical association said the lack of input from epidemiologists and public health specialists raised the likelihood of their by late april, the supreme court ruled that the government which had sidestepped parliament when it brought pushing that into the contact tracing setup needed to get this signed off by lawmakers. the ruling also stated that

a suitable alternatives compatible with the principles of privacy must be found. it was a victory, but it was temporary. amid a resurgence of corona virus infections in july, israel's parliament authorize the continued use of the shin bet program into january 2021. you were study president, you were saying ok, we can track people, would you be able the next day to give up on this resource? is it right as a default to give your security services? it's our you're saying we're what we're seeing. want to check. i mean, i think this is the key issue. the greatest concern is that there is not to be greater pressure to increase the capability for terror relation needs in the future justification saving lives. however, it isn't just the government in surveillance. so the drive, the pending, mach has opened up opportunities for

a number of private cyber intelligence and spyware companies, most of which are run by foreman and is of the israeli army. many of them have worked with some of the latest tracking and surveillance technology that tested on palestinians in the occupied territories. one of the most notorious israeli cyber intelligence companies is the n a so group, which claims to work with governments around the world to quote, prevent and investigate terrorism and crime to save thousands of lives. in fact, often than not, n s o has been in the headlines because it's high in surveillance to have been deployed by states against political activists dissidents, human rights campaign of journalists. even amazon senior jeff bezos in march and a so started developing its 1st quote civilian product called fleming and analytics to marketed to government agencies for tracking people's movements. powerful and algorithm examines patients and their historical points generating

a list of those potentially. i think there are many, many cases of activists and civil society organizations and journals as being tardy didn't harass, been arrested using the n s o fi where. and so give him that record it's, it's absolutely concerning to have them come around this time in the pandemic offering help with their technologies. perhaps this is for them and opportunity to whitewash their image to say, you know, where are there to help? we have a health and demick, it's a global one. we have solutions or what i would like to caution us against speaking the marketing brochures prepared by this survey and treating us some kind of ultimate work on the later this fall, which i've been observing for example, patient or condition technology for a long time. and there, if you will set that field 10 to 15 years ago,

you will see that the marketing brochures and the statements made by the industry where completely out of touch was to acknowledge is actually capable of deliver, say, certification in the news and the y fi makes your face your password because the market in there and on the battery, there are a short period to find the completely ineffective tools essentially become effective because so much money is being channelled towards as privacy rights got trampled in the stan peach. creat contact tracing apps to the heem, it's of the tech world came together in april engineer the apple and google have been working together to make public health technology that protects individual privacy. so the people never have to choose between their privacy and the health and safety of their community. the 2 companies said they would offer contact tracing software to public health institutions and governments to build their own apps around. at the heart of the system is bluetooth technology. when 2 phones recognized that they are close enough for a long enough period of time,

they will trade an anonymous string of code with each other called a key. should one of the phone on his later input, a coded positive status into the app? the information would get pinged to all the phones that have been in its proximity . for the previous 2 weeks, the keys are encrypted and constantly changing. for the most important point is that they never leave your phone. so there isn't a centralized list of who is interactive with. the partnership is arguably created one of the most privacy protecting technologies to help track the spread of the current of ours. a smart move in both business and publicity terms. when i spoke with guinea, he brought the solution is critique to the issue. now i would say that it's more as terrifying to me as many other solutions we have to try to reduce our dependence on solution is what we have to do it in full that are conditional the fact that the public democratic power that can fuel dr. vacuum currently does not exist in the strong form that it would have in order to kind of doing survive. and if that cost

solution is vacuum right, is northfield, then by democratic forces, it will be filled in by the security space. and the sub in space which in its kind of democratic implications is as bad as the solution is perhaps more or less dangerous for a lot of access to the pandemic has provided a job for the tech industry. at one level, it's presented governments and regulators with the destruction of global proportion, the kind that thrown recent investigations into tech practices and disciplinary hearings of schedule and lower down the list of priorities. second, it's been a huge business boost. despite the many drawbacks in the way that tech is being designed and works in our lives, coven 19 has help submit the ticket industry within the private sector. and it increasingly looks like main way. it's impossible to think about technology, for example. it's something that would not be provided by technology because we

think, well, what else could be if you're caught in this little iodine, you would think that there is nothing outside of google a facebook and only turn it, it would be kind of centrally planned economy like this and this is where the solution is in steps and to basically say ok, we have accepted this cost which well, we're finding the world according to the liberal template. and here is a now that will help us to reach gates and alleviate the pain. and the costs, there was also was there is a real absence or real lack for the most part of people actually saying to technology. and what we've seen is that there are a lot of folks who feel as though there is an inevitably to this. the concern is that when you have really brilliant academics or very large companies deciding that these things are inevitable, what they do is they give political cover to institutions. sure. and then going to

move about if i could demo for saying this doesn't accomplish anything. instead of this is how jesus was ation works, the public dialogue about contact tracy and be very different. so i'm guessing showing you wouldn't put a contact taking up on your bring. no, i wouldn't put it on my phone because i don't want to receive hundreds of notifications. loosely, the approximate test for me and privacy is important protection, but what we haven't seen as a proven value proposition. and so i wouldn't download it. not because i'm concerned about my privacy, but i wouldn't download it because i don't know what it would do during this pandemic, as both the public and lawmakers had growing ever more reliant on the technologies of silicon valley, the tech industry knows that this is its moment which lot for nothing and leaders and this and you like eric smith, the former chairman of google has not been saying that she hopes of this crisis has the avail. just how essential and fundamental defend the state. just imagine the

pandemic with out amazon without google, without apple, without faced book, you'd have go back to the 1918 you'd be operating on great fear. ultimately, this in the city will use the aftermath of the treasures in order to shape a much more favorable regulatory with themselves. i think all of us should be grateful that these companies are working really hard to help right now. unfortunately, i think they will actually find quite a lot of reception among general public and that it shows the consequences of this . we could have made different decisions 10 years ago, a few years ago where we were producer, official intelligence for logistics, for cloud computing as a public court, which would not meet us. so depending from the likes of amazon or google or microsoft, and we would be living in a very different world, and i would like that, that's one of the far more than a fabric. because right now, there is no way for us to have any non market democratic say in how this

infrastructure is effort, because they all want to the large number of unknowns surrounding the current of ours pandemic can make it feel like a problem too big for us. to grapple with but what we do know however, is that one of the best determinants of mortality is health care system capacity. and we also already know a number of ways to meaningfully invest resources into it. we don't need an app for that. the most important things that are improving their value now are not things that we invented. we see good government communication. we see strong patient investment in the capacity and for workers we see strong social safety nets and care networks built at the community level of the institutional level and wide range context. and of course, technology plays important part and supporting those in supporting those infrastructures. but the rush to invent something that sort of pushed to the

miracle cure or solution or whatever else is often very distracting from i think the things that we know to be most important. i don't want to downplay the role of technology here. technology enables people to share information and to access information like never before. it enables us to have the interview though it allows us to continue our live with as little destruction as possible. but we don't want to live in a world that enabled masturbate, and therefore it is our responsibility to understand that we're not just, i don't watch shirts. the pandemic is not permanent. what it will be permanent is how much are we allowing to go unnoticed and the question we have billed the world in the past few decades on the assumption that competition should be in the center of social coordination. and we have seen that the consequences of back are far from being positive, all of us. so bracing, so embarrassing as

a way to organize society as something very tangible. it serve as a guide and not just as an abstract idea who they very good move. the virus is indiscriminately get those living in poverty are far more vulnerable to the dangers of covert. 19 ollie re examined the reasons for this disparities, the social and economic inequality that surround us much deeper and much more problematic than we thought dos where the lessons learned from the global pandemic could lead to positive change. because of the things that can all hail the locked down, expose the privilege and poverty during a crisis on a jazz ah, ah ah

ah hello carrier headlines for the americas right here. right now we'll talk about a storm system crashing into southern areas of chile that includes so for the southern andes and some fierce winds for the falkland islands. we'll see them with up to about 80 kilometers per our. next we're going to go further north and south america. we did have a cold front punch across, but temperatures are now starting to rebound 24 degrees in rio de janeiro. you know, southern areas of brazil saw snow for the 1st time in about 30 years to give you an idea of just how cold it was off to central america. heavy rounds of rain coast to rico right through panama are intense. rain has backed off as we head toward hunters in nicaragua, on sunday. next for north america, we are tracking energy pretty much from the rockies right through to the mid

atlantic. and we've got some stronger pulses in and around washington d. c. it's also been active toward the desert, southwest flash flooding, flash flood warnings in play. this is aaron hall now, and it's certainly delivered. this is all influenced by the north american mon soon . we really see these storms flare up and then just drop buckets of rain on sunday . we could see it around the oklahoma panhandle. ok, and we'll finish off the west coast of canada where it is the dry stretch of weather in 35 years. the the fuel, the dry change following the removal of robert mcguffey than bob way with the country, bringing with it one journalist set out to record the voice of the people. instead of telling people what to think, how dread that give me a chance to speak for themselves and captured a haunting,

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