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worrying, i think for the african government, those the fighting continues within the walls of kandahar city in a number of areas in kandahar city, we understand that they've been as strikes that by the african air force overnight. now the african military, we didn't have a response from the taliban saying that 35 taliban were killed over night. the other very worrying figure we have, which comes through doctors mere weiss hospital, is that 18 people were injured overnight, including women and children. 3 dead said the civilian casualties. continue to mount things out of limpid committee, salary sion lim, pin. christina to minute sky is safe in the hands of japanese authorities. she says her lim pick team, tried to force her to leave japan after she publicly criticized her coaches spoke to the mattress athlete. christina simon simon, new sky directly last night. she was with the apple store. it is

a to airport and was time accompanied by a staff member of tokyo 2020. she assured us and has assured us that she feels safe and secure. she spent the night at an airport hotel in a safe and secure environment. the i see in tokyo 2020 you continue. the conversations with her and the japanese will thought is to determine the next step in the upcoming days. mexican harvest in a referendum, which if passed could lead to investigations of 5 former presidents. more than 40 percent of registered voters must take part the result to be binding. thousands of brazilians have been rallying and several cities in support present jebel, scenario backing his proposal for paper ballot, so replace electronic voting for next year's election update. now, with all the headlines, more news, continuing here on the algebra of the old hail the lockdown. i don't with 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 hanson a ties our face mask. all of the next day delivery on amazon school university, closed more 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 pandemic has left a scarily exposed to the pitfalls of a sometimes excessively automated and computerized 12

the algorithms, big data, artificial intelligence, these days, the tech industry seems to have a 6 for most, every problem we face. and while many of these tools made our lives miserably easier, more efficient, even more fun, we've also come up against something called technological solution is a concept as the technology playing to suit the hero and savior in almost every situation. kicklider and intellectual of getting more results has been writing about it. so it's something that i saw as dominant trends 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 actually valid 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, we're being told that, you know, it's the consequence of us not reciting properly. and since the problems are defined 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 into 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 it's something that also earns the company behind the solutions quite a lot of money. so was this, in fact, it's of course not surprising that the car in crisis related to call the 19 has generated an abundance of solution is technology. one of the most urgent problems

in the early days of the pen demik was how to track and trace the spread of the corona virus. think about the she is size of that problem. for every infected person, city, your 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 had been in close contact with the close 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. conduct tracing is an extraordinarily old and very sensible way of going about tracking and tracing. i spoke with sean mcdonald, who has spent more than 10 years building,

deploying and critiquing. mobile technologies in humanitarian disasters, such as 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 a process that connects people to treatment through a process that communicates risk and communicating 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 otherwise my and so i think that there's a lot to be examined about. the fundamentals are assumptions that go into the digital transformation that has stopped governments and health authorities from jumping on board from italy to india. more than $155.00 app enabled systems have been developed to track the spread of curve at 19 summary,

such as claim that in places like south korea and taiwan, they've helped identify code that hotspots and the close contacts of patients. but it's sean 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 pen demick under the pressure of politics and the threat of bad publicity in the border response. i think it was very early days in understanding a lot of the, the algorithm modeling to play. and i think that just lever seeing the coven response, with good intentions, are everywhere. the good intentions are not good science. rolling out a series of their provider, 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, but 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 for the caught me and it tries 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 chilling effect? location data is often some of the most re i 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 should 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 up 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 or in the data architecture? centralized, refused to enjoy. the broader questions are, are we meaningfully impacting the response? are we helping, you know, reduce mortality, increasing the capacity of responders to be effective? and 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 the news 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 close at 19, the patient 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 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 route. those who are every one that was in their contact with them in the past 2 weeks back that investigated and transferred to the ministry with the names and numbers of those persons and the ministry would draw in the proximity message and they must start warranty for 14 days it's really strange, i imagine my neighbor or maybe we're getting 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 team, one of the things that's important about the israeli case, there's a very, 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 design and measuring the spread of disease and very quickly and comes 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's human rights? they need to be a certain condition. i mean, one of them is having that closet, which basically mean an end date to the technology has been use 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 really medical association said the lack of input from epidemiologists and public health specialists raised the likelihood of every by late april, the supreme court ruled that the government which had sidestepped parliament when it brought bishan bit into the contact tracing setup needed to get this signed off by lawmakers. the ruling also stated that 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. your study that you were saying, okay, we can track people. would you be able the next day to keep up on resort? is it right as a default to your security service? our are you saying we are and 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 a non related needs in the future with the justification saving lives. however, it isn't just the government in surveillance. so the drive, the pin demick 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 innocent 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, dissident human rights campaign of journalists. even amazon senior jeff vessels in march and a so started developing its 1st quote civilian product could 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 harassed and 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 and the pin demick offering help with their technologies. perhaps this is for them and opportunity to whitewash their image. they were there to help. we have a health and demick, it's a global one. we have solution 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 all 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 about the marketing brochures and the statements made by the industry where completely out of touch was to acknowledge is actually capable of deliver face recognition in the news and the why fi makes you 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 channeled towards privacy rights. got trampled in the stand 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 in anonymous string of code with each other called a key. should one of the phone is 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. but 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 not 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 do into survives 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's 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 helped some of the tech industry within the private sector. and it increasingly looks like main way. 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 they'll 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 templates. and here is a now to help us to reach gates and alleviate the pain and the costs. solutions there is a real absence or real back 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 inevitable 80 to 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 it out. if i could demick were 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 to someone who's tested 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 to hopes of this crisis has been just how essential and fundamental defend the state gifts. 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, 2 years ago where we were producer, official intelligence for logistics, for cloud computing as a public court, which would not meet us. so the, from the likes of amazon or google, microsoft. and we will be living in a very different world, and that's one of the far more than the fat it. because right now, there is no way for us to have any non market democratic say in how this infrastructure is effort, because they don't want to the large number of unknown 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. you see strong patient investment in the capacity of workers using strong social safety nets and care networks built in the community level and 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 this 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. and i don't want to downplay role of technology here. technology enables people to share information

and to access information like never before. it enables us to have the interview. it allows us to continue our lives with as little disruption as possible. but we don't want to live in a world that enable master valence. and therefore, it is our responsibility to understand that we are not just idle watchers. 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 and 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 many barriers you as a way to organize it as something very tangible. it serve as a guide and not just as an abstract idea who they very good move

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to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than any one thought. the hello, thanks for being with us. it's all about the blazing sunshine across the middle east stand high temperature. so rehab we've got in for 43, q 848, and here in doha high of 44 degrees, plenty of sunshine to go around where it has not been sunny is for northern areas of pakistan in the hor, 60 millimeters of rain. this area has seen flash flooding, and same goes for as long as the body and you know what, on monday that rain is still falling in this region. settled toward the south, correct? a height of 33 degrees. we're keeping tabs on that wild fire burning in antalya province. this is what crews are up against and you know, the weather conditions i think will complicate matters here. for example,

we're going to walk her temperature into the 40. so there's the city of antalya, the fire is burning, just east of there, and this is what the next 3 days looks like. locking it in to 40 and then those winds will cost up to about 25 kilometers per hour. it's also got low humidity, which is also not helping with that firefight for central africa. we've got storms bubbling up as we head toward gabon and cameroon. on monday, and if i take you towards south africa, we've got some scattered showers for port elizabeth into durban is wall with a high of 20 degrees. that sure weather update. we'll see later. the news the fuel, the dry change. bullying 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 gives them

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