we think that what freak out is within reach a european population as is seek to make it as i reach that goal. as we need to take bold action to make sure all parts of the community get there. and because we're not prepared to pass the community behind, ah, is al jazeera, these, you're told stories. the us envoy for wrong says he's negotiators, are ready to hold direct talks with iran. the white house is wanting functions remain in place on the us preparing additional measures. if the talk in vienna failed to reach an agreement being, while the official sharing the talk between iran and well palace has all sides have shown a renewed sense of purpose to revive the 2015 deal with both this morning was for impose the legation of only the ring in one call delegations renew,

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standing diplomatic ties with taiwan. the government said in a statement, it recognizes the communist parties, one china policy. taiwan is expressed pain and regret at the decision. only 14 countries in the world recognized taiwan as a country. and several countries expound a booster vaccine program to contain cave. in 19 variant infections, world health organization continues to pose it. the w h o says the priority should be to get everyone in the world vaccinated with the essential vaccine shots. australia has outlined a plan to make corona virus vaccines, compulsory and applies to people 14 above those who refuse to get the jobs will be fined about $4000.00. as you headlines. nice continues, here are the people in power for the 1st time since the lead up to the 2nd world war, the nobel peace prize is being awarded to german maria,

reza and dmitri motor tough receiving the 2021 prize. that courageous contribution to freedom of expression in the philippines and in russia, in an exclusive interview live here in oslo will be speaking to this year's lawyer about the challenges endangered face doing their job. and if significant seen protecting democracy, the noble in to be only on al jazeera, the 2 years the world has been wrestling with the damage that has cost millions of lives and affected billions more of us through economic contraction and restrictions on our movements. as people have reported here in 2021, it's also prompted claims that measures taken in the name of the features that have damaged civil liberties. now,

as governments respond to the micron very into the virus, we're sharing that episode again. i oh, the corona virus pandemic has calls governments around the world to take extra ordinary messages, closing cities banning travel and making people stay at home for months at a time, ah, in the race to defeat the disease. they've also had to gather a huge amounts of data about our whereabouts and i'll state of health. digital contact tracing tools offered the opportunity to address larger numbers of contacts

in a short period of time. and to provide a real time picture of the spread of the virus. but privacy campaign is now asking if all the new lords, 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 pandemic has been 1st government packed and they panics because they recognized that they didn't have the infrastructure they 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 grounds on which long time erosions of our liberties a see that it can feel rarely 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 that is the pandemic, because you're often painted as you don't care about public safety or public health . but exactly how of all civil liberties been eroded? what's been going on under the cover of cove it and we're 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 code 19 with just 2 symbols. step one, download a truce together and help those around you to set it up to turn on your bluetooth. and it is as simple as that. as in many countries, the government said the app was voluntary, worked entirely on anonymized aidid, and his only tracking the virus, not the user. and that's really it. no jewel, the patient, no other personal data is collected. but digital rights activists like li ting

weren't taking their word for it. well, tech experts examined the code for it. they found that it wasn't doing all the things that it said it would do. so for instance, it said that the data would not be shared would be totally a non mares and so on. it found that the data was shared more widely than it was supposed to was. so some government agencies at 1st take up with low until the app was made mandatory to access public areas like shopping malls. now it's used by nearly 80 percent of the population. but in january 2021, the government admitted the police had accessed the data for murder investigation, police forces, and poet under the criminal procedure caught block kid any data. and that includes the chance to get data for criminal investigations, even a normally quiescent. sing a poll, there was concern, it also brought up as

a questions for people. so what their data has been used in what types of investigations can we trust that this is the only time that this has happened? at the time, i was volunteering quite heavily with us ex, work as fight organization. and one of my concerns was that the data from content tracing could be used to identify sex workers in their clients. this has your trace together history. so over the past 25 days, these are the number of times that the devices with trace together have been pinged . and given that textbook as from lies and singapore, largely i was, i had some concerns that there is evidence to suggest digital contact rating can be more effective, the manual tracing, but privacy campaign is fe. these methods of surveillance will outlive their initial use. that's going to be one of the legacies of cobra, the whole idea that your mobile phone and an app and the telecommunications

infrastructure design for you to enjoy spending your time communicating with others will be used to enforce your own natasha in the future. in israel, the government also employed mobile phones for contact tracing, but used a method that raised even more privacy concerns. while ordinary people struggled on the heavily police locked downs. the pandemic like 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. ah, baron was a regular protester during one of the locked downs when outside meetings were permitted. she metal with fellow activists. this is what we were doing that night. there was a party, a birthday party of

a one of my friends then the police just came. it were starting to harass ethan just wanted us to leave a few days later. i got the text message says the date and the hours you were near someone who was tested positive for her on a virus. you have to immediately starts a quarantine. this might seem normal for many countries, but an emergency regulation had allowed the shin bad israel secret service to run its track and trace program. and even though it's called la buckley ashley shoot, then the from the saw the so feel a hockey pavilions cannot opt out. they can't even off it. it's just the secret service tracking all civilians. anybody with in israel are the only democracy in the world to this day that was using their secret services to do this. the shin, better often accused of breaching human rights law or in their treatment to palestinians. but the revelation showed that they don't only operate in the west bank and occupied territories. the reason this happened is because the shouldn't

bat already is tracing people. instead of waiting for something new to be created, they already have a tool within the sion bed. 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 maley, protecting citizens from a deadly disease. but civil rights campaign and say that with shin bet, doing both. nobody would know in a democracy, can't be 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 a freezing effect,

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 trapped after 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 are routinely monitored. i think that we finally has to fight against it in all areas. a doesn't matter if it happened to him, and he's rarely, citizen or to someone in the elk by 30 tories. his really, really bad. this is a slippery slope act. words violating human rights in the early stages of the pandemic. other governments also experimented with electronic mass tracking, but with only marginal success. ultimately, it was recognized that this level of mass surveillance doesn't actually help you with a pandemic. so they decided to resort to what they do often as a next step,

which is rely extensively on industry to sell them toys. your system shows of your health lady. i would recommend you put off for the industry. many governments tend to with biometrics, which uses unique personal traits like a face iris, or fingerprint to identify people for china, which was already openly using facial recognition in its 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 airlines. keen to get people back into the air says the c e o of quantas col, touch, travel people. now we see a huge move to that. yours mirrors in the space of a few more waiting change that will stay 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 face. a lot of it is a sort of form of tech solution at them, which is the idea that technology because it's shawny because it's new, contains all the answer to all of our problems in many people. so the unquestioningly trust technology or fume 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 facial recognition was being touted by police, particularly in the united states as the great solution to producing problems without recognizing that their own forces. i turned off the tech because it wasn't actually working. then $911.00 happened. it's just months later and all of a sudden governments are reaching for facial recognition and fingerprinting. so we deployed them corridors. we 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 the areas of opportunity, 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 refugee agencies and, and governments for sponsoring refugee agencies that the deploy fingerprinting iris scan facial recognition. and again, i got a close up view of somebody's 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 to fail the reliance and the shaping of people's lives based around yes. now did the system say you're allowed and or do the system denied because it failed campaign and say these systems are often 1st tried out away from critic hello in the west like biometric voting,

which has been trialed in afghanistan, uganda in here in iraq with a panoramic, maybe we can use facial recognition with people's face was 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 shops, we can use facial recognition everywhere. and then we've forgotten why we deployed it with biometrics and bias to say that there is a real risk that i'll kind of personal identities faces. our fingerprints on ours is we can't change those. they will be locked into a system forever. they can be exposed to by because they can be forced to biometric because governments and then when it was stock has no way of resetting your face. it's not like a pamphlet. this is a kind of a permanent solution to a temporary problem with the temporary becoming permanent. it's just one of the consent campaign of have around the chest data. still,

a joint computer system fail using the personal data held by britain national health service wherever you live, and have yourself. as many i mentioned before, the, any 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's wes billions of pounds and they serve as the new oil as we know, dates or is money. no, really, any test data can only be used by those treating a patient. but when the pandemic struck, the rules were loosened. in march 2020, and a chest announced that they were setting up something called the cove at 19 data still . and that they dentist and to 5 contracts with different tech companies. and that, that data still was going to be the kind of single source of truth about the pandemic. for the m f,

the data still pulls together information from across the vast 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 it worried privacy campaign as it was extremely vague. we didn't know what day to was going into it. we didn't know how it was being used and it was, you know, very secretive and emerged stop. the 1st contract had gone t pounds. here he built a back phone. this for just one pound, which obviously soundcloud trisic. plenty of pantry is a software platform that allows organizations to bring their teachers together and then enable se uses to conduct sophisticated analytics and operations on top of the unified data. talented have been criticized for providing its data mining capability to the cia and the u. s. board of 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. this by tack, the u. s. police force as they are not company that certainly we would immediately think would be appropriate and indeed we don't think are appropriate for an an a chest contract. but the british government didn't seem that concerned when asked by a technology journalist what palin to my hope to get from a one pound contract. secretary of state for health replied. the honest truth is, there is no way we would have been able to cope with this plan demik until in the way that we have been able to without the support of the tech companies that have been absolutely brilliant. i put together the platforms that we need and lots of them gave over their time and their capability for public benefits provide i rosa curling organization. foxglove, a u. k. law firm set up to challenge big tech,

took legal proceedings which forced the government to reveal the contract, which was for a pilot or trial project. the contract also detailed the types of data being used. what we did say was that the covenant they thought was collecting data on political affiliation, a religious belief that was collecting information about criminal convictions and ethnic days. her employment dates her does no understanding of why political, religious faith was needed for in a cave at 19 data. so and much of this information is irrelevant to scientists. battling the pandemic doc to pull mckay, worked on britain faxing program. we have no interest in multiple bye or less affiliation or any of that type of thing. or 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 interventions. if may me begin on sequencing that is guiding what we do, privacy campaign is also worried about mission creep. the one set off this huge system would continue in operation off to the pandemic and expand into other areas . the government promised it was temporary, and then palin tay assigned a new deal for 23000000 pounds. rosa went back to court and was allowed to see the new contract. a paypal, i made clear that the mission crate was so the contract itself says how unconfirmed that purpose of the data store was going to be increased and widened. and the other issues began to also be looked taps. i b e u, exit business monitoring as usual, whatever that may mean relevant pandemic. so the flavor, the government declined to respond to us directly. but as the story was unfolding

the enact, jeff said strict state rules apply to everyone involved in helping in this critical task. the companies do not control the data and on not committees 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 be in a chest. in april 2021 pallet t, it became an official u. k. government supplier. they've also signed contract without european governments, including greece and the netherlands. the health ministries of the world are, are just, you know, there's such prime targets for this industry. that is, um, they're sitting on a lot of data. i don't know what to do with that. and then suddenly a sales person's 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,

there are health data and it's being used to essentially go the next generation of profiling technology. but it's not just governments that are accused of monitoring people under the cover of coded. good afternoon, you're from to brian hope to my assist you today as millions around the world and now working from home, like brian unions raising concerns about the new phones at surveillance. so i was gonna get your billing note and see what we can find. brian's employ a requires him to account for every 2nd of his day. so when i go to so i have to click into what's called a cause. it's basically notify them where i am and i think there's about going to the bathroom for me. i'm going to answer when i get back as a few minutes, just going where are you? when's your time get back on calls. so good, absolutely. be monitored and we'll take the cool thing to work. it's long been heavily monitored, but it's intensified with the move working from home without a metal saying that all the gangs were pounds it on

a list of who stated monetary reasons. i don't want people, i've never met to see my head 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 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 micromanagement is more common into all walks of life and 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 e mails for key words, whether you're chatting to different workers and who you're wanting to. brian gives us a flavor of what this feels like. we have, i guess, an employee for them when they were and that was one of the few times people were right angry and there was a said that disappears. so that just vanished suddenly. and there was then a 2nd fed, under people with enough fed saying i've been told i should call the pitch is the analytics allow companies to improve staff productivity, thus increasing profit. but brian thinks employees 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 forget industrial action even speak to each other. this tracking is a global phenomenon. amazon closed up roll when it announced the rollout of a i enabled cameras in the usa that monitor neighborhood i met dr. was 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. her iris has been the elk a she, nancy full for businesses and to governments to massively increase their power to increase as surveillance to increase that 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 are ins, justina for the greater good try and safety, far in health, in the guise of public health. civil rights advocates be this surveillance will be extended by the same measures many countries hope will allow travel to reduce health paul sports. many leaders see the miss akita normality. the almost empty results of southern europe have helped convince the european union. with this

digital certificate, we aimed to help member states reinstate the freedom of movement in a safe, responsible and trusted manner. 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 for boxing passport, but obviously of another country insist that we show that we have been vaccinated and we want to go to their trade. we would have to have oxy, obviously for local us that he gets a terrible, i get, it would discriminate against people. but for civil rights campaign is the dangerous go much deeper than discrimination, wouldn't be a side effect of this discrimination is the whole point of the whole point of the co. the hospital would be to create a 2 tier societies where the wealthy with that shiny kind of passes can go to the

special loc, sedated only hotels vaccinate stoney restaurants in the air planes 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 that a paid during the pandemic is here to say. you don't build all that tech to 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 answer will have built the infrastructure for all of that. and all of a sudden you have the perfect identity system involving biometrics,

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