slowing down the process and the clear kind of bureaucratic procedures in a place where the sun shines more than $320.00 days a year. solar panels could solve the electricity problem. but it is these really occupation that's preventing the palestinian goals of energy, self reliance, neither abraham l just either be occupied westbank ah, type creature at the top stories here on al jazeera, british prime minister, barak johnson as announce what's believed to be the world's 1st confirmed death from the army cron variant of cope at 19 strings expects to be dominant in london within 48 hours. i think the idea, look, this is somehow a milder version of the virus. i think that's something we need to set on one side and just recognize the sheer pace or which it accelerates through the population.

so the best thing we can all do is get our boosters, work me up centers across the country, were getting in the army to, to help with the logistics. we're expanding in every possible way. and what we need now is for the public to respond and to do that do what is necessary get bruce dinner. us defense secretary lloyd austin, has decided against punishing military personnel involved in a drone strike that killed 10 civilians. not gannons, dance, capital, cobble and aid worker and 9 members of his family, including a 2 year old child, died in the operation. on august 29, an investigation found the strike didn't violate the laws of war, but mistakes were made. it happened 3 days after an islip jacket cobble airport following the taliban takeover. the governor of the u. s. states of kentucky says more than a 100 people are still missing. following friday's tornadoes, at least 74 have died in the state. president biden has declared an emergency visit

on wednesday june his years president has called a constitutional referendum for july 25th. exactly a year after this, after he suspended parliament, dismissed the prime minister and seize broad powers. i say it says it will follow public online consultations starting in january. we also announced new parliamentary elections to be held at the end of next year. protest as of again rally, been sedans, capital cartoon. there's anger of last month deal, but in the prime minister and the military security forces use tear gas to disperse the crowds. the political agreement, so abdullah hum doc reinstated us by minister weeks after the military detained him and seize power. sedans, largest civilian coalition, has rejected the deal. so those were the headlines and he's continues here now to 0 after people pass stage. and thanks for watching back. now frank assessments this gracious is continued to weaken lucas shenker, even though perhaps he believed in the beginning that strength of informed opinions

. i think politicians will now be under incredible pressure from their young people . that is one of the most of the things that come out of this critical debate. do you think it should be facilitated? not okay. it's a great, it's a really simple question. let's give samuel charges. once the inside story on al jazeera, the 2 years, the world has been wrestling with a 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 defeating, could have damaged civil liberties. no,

was governments response to the oma kron variant of the virus. we're sharing that episode again. i oh, the corona virus pandemic has fullest governments around the world to take extra ordinary matches 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 huge amounts of data about our whereabouts and our state of health. digital conduct dressing 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 vidas. but privacy campaign is now asking if all the new log 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 day crisis is the grounds on which long time erosions of our liberties 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 coby 19 with just 2 simple steps. one, download trees 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 idea, and his only tracking the virus, not the user, and that's really it. no june 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 anonymous, and so on. they 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 a murder investigation police forces, and pollitt. under the criminal procedure caught block kid any data. and that includes the chance to get a data for criminal investigations, even in normally quiescent. sing a poll that was concern and also brought up as

a question 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, look as vita 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 other devices with trace together have been pinged. and given that textbook as criminalized 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 designed 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 use the method that raised even more privacy concerns. while ordinary people struggled on the heavily police locked down 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 lock downs. when outside meetings were permitted, she met up 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 process and just wanted us to leave a few days later i got the text message, but it says the date and the hours. you are near someone who was tested positive for her on a virus. you have to immediately starts quarantine. this might seem normal for many countries, but an emergency regulation had allowed the shin bad israel secret service to run it's track and trade program. and even though it's called la buckley ashley, shoot the nissan, the saw this a fil, a hockey civilians cannot opt out. they can't even off it. it's just the secret service tracking all civilians. anybody with in israel. we 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 lower in their treatment 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 ship bad

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 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 have to fight against faith in all areas. a doesn't matter if it happened to him, and he's rarely, citizen or to someone a day occupied territories. 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. you'll see them shows of your help, lady. i would recommend you to visit from doc for the industry. many governments tend to with biometrics, which uses unique personal traits like a face iris, or fingerprint to identify p a 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, taco 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 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 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 and refugee camps. so our refugee agencies and, and governments for sponsoring refugee agencies to deploy fingerprinting iris scan 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 to fail 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 critic allied in the west like biometric voting, which has been trialed in afghanistan,

uganda and here in iran 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 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 hackers. 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 test data. still a join computer system fail using the personal data held by britain national health service. where do 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 through has, and it's, you know, billions of pounds and they service the oil as we know, day through money. normally any test data can only be used by those treating a patient. but when the pandemic struck, the rules loosened in march 2020, then a chest announced that they were setting up link with the cave at 19 data still. and that they dentist and 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 f,

the data store pulls together information from across the vast in a chest, including confidential details given to the 111 help line, 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. it was, you know, very secretive and emerge. stop. the 1st contract had gone t pounds. here he had built the back for this for just one pound, which obviously soundcloud trisic, talented foundry 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. they're spy 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 talented 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 with this plan demick and deal with it in the way that we have been able to without the support of tech companies. i have been absolutely brilliant. i put together the platforms that we meet 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 see was that the covenant in data, so was collecting data on political affiliation, religious beliefs is collecting information about criminal convictions and ethnic data and employment. data does know understanding of why political, religious data was needed in a cove at 19 data. still and much of this information is irrelevant to scientists. battling the pandemic doc to pull mckay works on britain faxing program. we have no interest in people by or listening 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 is mainly begin on sequencing that is guiding what we do. privacy campaign is also worried about mission creek. the one set up 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 to assigned a new deal for 23000000 pounds. rosa went back to court and was allowed to see the new contract. the paypal, i made clear that the mission crate was there. that the contract itself says how and confirmed that purpose of the data store was going to be increased and widened . and the other issue, we're going to also be live taps i v e o x. it's business monitoring as usual, whatever that may mean relevant pandemic, 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 mrs 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 panty became an official u. k. government supplier. they've also signed contract without that european government, 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 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. 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 cove . it, good afternoon, you're from to brian hope. tim assist you today as millions around the world and now working from home like brian unions raising concerns about the new forms of surveillance. so i'm just gonna get your billing open note as who we can find. brian's employ a requires him to account for every 2nd of his day. so when i go to the toilet, i have to click into disco, what's called the codes as basically to notify them where i am about kind of 2 meters of, of go into the buffering. 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 mental thing or beginning. where comes it on a list of status?

monetary reasons, i don't want people, i've never met to see my adrian, which i think is 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 micro management 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 emails for key words, whether you're chatting to different workers who us from doing to brian gives us a flavor of what this feels like. we have, i guess, an employee for them when the, when i was there and that was when a few times people were right angry and there was a said but disappeared. so that just vanished suddenly. and there was then a 2nd fed, under his 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 industrial actually, you can speak to each other. this tracking is a global phenomena and amazon closed up roll when announced the roll out 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, 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 passport. many leaders see them as a keyed normality. the almost empty results at 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 mental. israel has reopened gyms and hotels with its green pulse. currently a q r code showing vaccination status. me many, including vaccine scientists think they are inevitable elsewhere. i don't personally like the idea of faxing passport, but obviously of another country and that we show we have been vaccinated and we want to go to their country. we would have to have obviously for local us that he gets 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 say, you don't build all that tech to then just easily shut it down. the moment that the w. h o, it 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,

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 the 20th centuries 1st genocide thought to have set the blueprint for the holocaust is too often overlooked. the sand will come in very everything. but for some reason, the sand refused to bury these people. they won this story to be taught over a century on the injustice still echoed down the generations on the path to reparation. is nathan, easy, one, namibia, the price of genocide, people and power analogies, era?

ah, with the 1st confirmed death from the micron, very rims is reported in the u. k, where it's rapid spread will make it a dominant curve at 19 strain in london within days. ah, hello, i'm down, jordan, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up 74 people are confirmed dead in kentucky with more than a 100 missing where whole towns have been destroyed by the devastating tornadoes to the u. s. decides no actions to be taken against military personnel involved in a drones strike enough.