COVID & new tech --- Thank you Scott for mentioning this positive experience of how secure technologies are applied during the pandemics. I have read several media articles for Covid/quarantine related apps used in Russia, where mass surveillance via mobile phones was used (GPS, geo-location data) in order to automatically alarm authorities if a person left their home (several persons were penalized when tried to throw domestic waste or recieve food delivery in front of the house/building). Technology can be applied in different ways. I believe that human rights and privacy aspects must also be considered always when governments implement new tech on a mass scale.

Source author: Vladimir Nikolov vladimir984@yahoo.com