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Topic Reading-Vol.2913-4/2/2020

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2020/04/02 Topic Reading-Vol.2913-4/2/2020

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How Russia is using authoritarian tech to curb coronavirus

Big Brother is a fictional character and the symbol in a famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell published seven decades ago. The ruling party of the fictional society has the total power over the inhabitants, and every citizen is under constant surveillance by the authority.

Now in 2020, some governments are increasingly getting logs of their people’s daily activities. Surveillance cameras, facial recognition technologies, geolocation records, and credit card and mobile payment transactions are used integratedly to identify individual’s movements and activities and when and where. This helps track coronavirus carriers and their contacts so that the authority can arrest those who violated quarantine or social distancing or warn who had close contacts with them.

Such surveillance and tracking by the government will raise privacy concerns and political backlash in normal times. However, the world is under pandemic and people tend to accept, or even welcome, such government intrusion of privacy to save their lives.

Is this going to be a new norm even after the pandemic is over?

Enjoy reading the article and think if you support such government initiatives to cope with the pandemic.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/29/europe/russia-coronavirus-authoritarian-tech-intl/index.html

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