Novel coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says

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EFF: Dangers of Trump’s Executive Order Explained

Dangers of Trump’s Executive Order Explained

The inaptly named Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship (EO) is a mess on many levels: it’s likely unconstitutional on several grounds, built on false premises, and bad policy to boot. We are no fans of the way dominant social media platforms moderate user content. But the EO, and its clear intent to retaliate against Twitter for marking the president’s tweets for fact-checking, demonstrates that governmental mandates are the wrong way to address concerns about faulty moderation practices.

The EO contains several key provisions. We will examine them in separate posts linked here:

1. The FCC rule-making provision
2. The misinterpretation of and attack on Section 230
3. Threats to pull government advertising
4. Review of unfair or deceptive practices.

Although we will focus on the intended legal consequences of the EO, we must also acknowledge the danger the Executive Order poses even if it is just political theater and never has any legal effect. The mere threat of heavy-handed speech regulation can inhibit speakers who want to avoid getting into a fight with the government, and deny readers information they want to receive. The Supreme Court has recognized that “people do not lightly disregard public officers’ thinly veiled threats” and thus even “informal contacts” by government against speakers may violate the First Amendment.

The EO’s threats to free expression and retaliation for constitutionally-protected editorial decisions by a private entity are not even thinly veiled: they should have no place in any serious discussion about concerns over the dominance of a few social media companies and how they moderate user content.

That said, we too are disturbed by the current state of content moderation on the big platforms. So, while we firmly disagree with the EO, we have been highly critical of the platforms’ failure to address some of the same issues targeted in the EO’s policy statement, specifically: first, that users deserve more transparency about how, when and how much content is moderated; second, that decisions often appear inconsistent; and, third, that content guidelines are often vague and unhelpful. Starting long before the president got involved, we have said repeatedly that the content moderation system is broken and called for platforms to fix it. We have documented a range of egregious content moderation decisions (see our onlinecensorship.org, Takedown Hall of Shame, and TOSsed Out projects). We have proposed a human rights framing for content moderation called the Santa Clara Principles, urged companies to adopt it, and then monitored whether they did so (see our 2018 and 2019 Who Has Your Back reports).

But we have rejected government mandates as a solution, and this EO demonstrates why it is indeed the wrong approach. In the hands of a retaliatory regime, government mandates on speech will inevitably be used to punish disfavored speakers and platforms, and for other oppressive and repressive purposes. Those decisions will disproportionately impact the marginalized. Regardless of the dismal state of content moderation, it is truly dangerous to put the government in control of online communication channels.

Some have proposed that the EO is simply an attempt to bring some due process and transparency to content moderation. However, our analysis of the various parts of the EO illuminate why that’s not true. 

What about Competition?

For all its bluster, the EO doesn’t address one of the biggest underlying threats to online speech and user rights: the concentration of power in a few social media companies.

If the president and other social media critics really want to ensure that all voices have a chance to be heard, if they are really concerned that a few large platforms have too much practical power to police speech, the answer is not to create a new centralized speech bureaucracy, or promote the creation of fifty separate ones in the states. A better and actually constitutional option is to reduce the power of the social media giants and increase the power of users by promoting real competition in the social media space. This means eliminating the legal barriers to the development of tools that will let users control their own Internet experience. Instead of enshrining Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Twitter, and Microsoft as the Internet’s permanent overlords, and then striving to make them as benign as possible, we can fix the Internet by making Big Tech less central to its future.

The Santa Clara Principles provide a framework for making content moderation at scale more respectful of human rights. Promoting competition provides a way to make the problems caused by content moderation by the big tech companies less important. Neither of these seem likely to be accomplished by the EO. But the chilling effect the EO will likely have on hosts of speech, and, consequently, the public—which relies on the Internet to speak out and be heard—is likely very real.

Published June 01, 2020 at 06:41AM
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EFF: Black Lives Matter, Online and in the Streets: Statement from EFF in the Wake of the Police Killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd

Black Lives Matter, Online and in the Streets: Statement from EFF in the Wake of the Police Killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd

Black lives matter on the streets. Black lives matter on the Internet. 

EFF stands with the communities mourning the victims of police homicide. We stand with the protesters who are plowed down by patrol cars. We stand with the journalists placed in handcuffs or fired upon while reporting these atrocities. And we stand with all those using their cameras, phones and digital tools to make sure we cannot turn away from the truth.

There is no doubt that we are in deeply troubled times. From lockdown in our homes, many of us are watching with heart-stopping horror as the cellphone footage of extreme police violence washes down our feeds. Others feel compelled to join the protests in person and to bear witness and document it for the rest of us over the digital networks that connect us all. The president is sowing chaos through incendiary, authoritarian orders and pressure toward more violence, sometimes through official channels, more often on Twitter. The build-up of even more sophisticated mass and targeted surveillance tools in the hands of American law enforcement, and the erosion of local control and protections against misuse, have all been normalized over the past two decades. Now the pandemic management technology being pushed by some tech companies and governments over the last few months is primed to be deployed as a massive new surveillance and control apparatus. 

With all of it, who will feel the brunt of the harm? 

Black lives. 

Our hearts are breaking for our Black coworkers, neighbors and friends, who have suffered from this trauma for far too long. While we’ve seen small rays of hope by a few in government and law enforcement, they are overshadowed by the rest. Overall, we are enraged at the response by the police all over the country to these protests, doubling down on abusive tactics and ramping up tracking of protesters. And we are worried about what’s coming: protest movements often bring out the worst in constitutional abuse. We’ve seen police surveillance tools grow and metastasize, with law enforcement officials specifically targeting the Black-led movement to end racist police violence.

To the protesters and reporters on the front lines, we urge you to stay safe, both physically and digitally. Our Surveillance Self-Defense Guide for protesters was designed for these situations. We’ll be updating it as we see new tactics and strategies and tools.  To our racial justice, economic justice, and environmental justice allies, EFF is here to help whenever you need some hands who understand technology and the law. To the reporters from struggling newsrooms: we are available to answer your questions and we have resources to help you. 

And to everyone, we pledge to redouble our efforts to beat back police surveillance and abuse, and to build and protect the tools that allow you to organize and assemble and speech securely and without censorship. 

Published May 31, 2020 at 11:34PM
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George Floyd death: Violence breaks out amid US protests

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George Floyd death: US cities order curfews amid widespread clashes

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Coronavirus: Biden and Trump face off over China

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Los Angeles mayor calls for National Guard help

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Trump postpones G7 summit, seeks to expand invitation list

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George Floyd: US protests over police brutality intensify - Live

Several US states activate National Guard troops as protests over police killings of unarmed Black people grow.

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Ten test positive to coronavirus in the Championship

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Trump delays 'outdated' G7 leaders' summit

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FOX NEWS: As coronavirus scams proliferate, Google launches scam-spotter tool

As coronavirus scams proliferate, Google launches scam-spotter tool



Scammers beware: Google is on the lookout for you.

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FOX NEWS: Twitter tags Trump tweet for ‘glorifying violence’

Twitter tags Trump tweet for ‘glorifying violence’



Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was informed in advance by the company’s staff of a decision to tag a tweet by President Donald Trump as ‘glorifying violence’, a spokeswoman for the company said; Kristin Fisher reports.

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FOX NEWS: Navy builds 10 new heavily armed frigate warships

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FOX NEWS: Murky messaging: Facebook allowed 'Death to America' advertising but censors US back-to-work rallies

Murky messaging: Facebook allowed 'Death to America' advertising but censors US back-to-work rallies



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FOX NEWS: Airports embracing an influx of passengers with new social distancing technology

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FOX NEWS: FBI reveals how alleged scammer stole personal identities

FBI reveals how alleged scammer stole personal identities



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FOX NEWS: Trump signs executive order on social media censorship following feud with Twitter

Trump signs executive order on social media censorship following feud with Twitter



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FOX NEWS: 5 great sites to delete online accounts, create ambient music, see if a site is down and more

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FOX NEWS: Israeli researchers helped thwart potentially massive cyberattack, study shows

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FOX NEWS: Trump: Social media companies have unchecked power to control, censor information

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US cops break ‘blue wall of silence’ for George Floyd’s death

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EFF: Immunity Passports Are a Threat to Our Privacy and Information Security

Immunity Passports Are a Threat to Our Privacy and Information Security

With states beginning to ease shelter-in-place restrictions, the conversation on COVID-19 has turned to questions of when and how we can return to work, take kids to school, or plan air travel.

Several countries and U.S. states, including the UK, Italy, Chile, Germany, and California, have expressed interest in so-called “immunity passports”—a system of requiring people to present supposed proof of immunity to COVID-19 in order to access public spaces, work sites, airports, schools, or other venues. In many proposed schemes, this proof would be stored in a digital token on a phone. Immunity passports would threaten our privacy and information security, and would be a significant step toward a system of national digital identification that can be used to collect and store our personal information and track our location.

Immunity passports are purportedly intended to help combat the spread of COVID-19. But there is little evidence that they would actually accomplish that.

On a practical level, there is currently no test for COVID-19 immunity; what we have are antibody tests. But we don’t know whether people with antibodies have immunity. Meanwhile, there has been a flood of flawed tests and fraudulent marketing schemes about antibody tests. Even when validated tests are widely available, they may not be 100 percent accurate. The system should be a non-starter unless it can guarantee due process for those who want to challenge their test results. This has often been a problem before; as we saw with the “no-fly” lists created after 9/11, it is very difficult to get off the list, even for those whose inclusion was a mistake.

The problem with immunity passports isn’t just medical—it’s ethical. Access to both COVID-19 testing and antibody testing is spotty. Reports abound of people who fear they have been infected desperately trying to get tested to no avail. Analysis has shown that African Americans are far less likely than white, Hispanic, or Asian patients to be tested before they end up in the emergency room. Mobile testing sites administered by Verily (a subsidiary of Google’s parent Alphabet) require people to have a smartphone and a Google account. Residents in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, were turned away from testing sites because they didn’t have cell phones.

Requiring smartphone-based immunity verification to access public spaces like offices and schools would exacerbate existing inequities and reinforce a two-tiered system of the privileged, who can move about freely in society, and the vulnerable, who can’t work, shop, or attend school because they don’t have a cell phone or access to testing. We’ve been here before. When yellow fever struck the South in the 1850s, those thought to be “unacclimated” to the disease were unemployable. This burdened black and lower-income people more than privileged members of society.

As we saw then, conditioning access to society on immunity incentivizes “bug-chasing”—that is, people deliberately trying to get sick in order to get the immunity passport. No one should have to expose themselves to a potentially deadly disease with no cure to find work.

 Risks of Digitized Immunity Passports

The push for immunity passports has largely been premised on the promise of technological solutions to a public health crisis. A proposed bill in California, for example, would use blockchain technology to facilitate an immunity passport system on peoples’ smartphones. We oppose this bill. Technological advancements such as blockchain technology or other methods  of implementation do not address our objections to this type of system in of itself.

Moreover, digital-format immunity passports could normalize digital-format proof-of-status documents more generally. Advocates of immunity passports visualize a world where we can’t pass through a door to a workplace, school, or restaurant until the gatekeeper scans our credentials. This would habituate gatekeepers to demand such status credentials, and habituate the public to submit to these demands.

This digital system could easily be expanded to check not just a person’s immunity status, but any other bit of personal information that a gatekeeper might deem relevant, such as age, pregnancy, HIV status, or criminal history. The system could also be adjusted to document not just a particular person’s status, but also when that person passed through a door that required proof of such status. And all data of all such passages could be accumulated into one database. This would be a troubling step towards digital national identification, which EFF has long opposed because it would create new ways to digitally monitor our movements and activities.

Digital format documentation also brings the risk of presenting such documentation under duress to varying authorities. Handing over your phone to police, unlocked or not, includes significant risks, especially for people in vulnerable communities—risks that could lead to unintended consequences for the presenter and a potential abuse of power by law enforcement.

Moreover, requiring people to store their medical test results in a digital format would expose private medical information to the danger of data breaches. Again, this is hardly new—we have seen exactly these types of breaches in the past when medical information has been digitized and collected. Just last year, for example, an HIV database in Singapore leaked the personal information of more than 14,000 individuals living with HIV.

We should learn from our past mistakes, and ensure that technology works to empower people, instead of creating new vulnerabilities. 

 

Published May 29, 2020 at 01:47AM
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14 million face hunger in Latin America: Live coronavirus updates

World Food Programme calls for urgent assistance to millions facing severe hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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EFF: Watch EFF Cybersecurity Director Eva Galperin's TED Talk About Stalkerware

Watch EFF Cybersecurity Director Eva Galperin's TED Talk About Stalkerware

Stalkers and abusive partners want access to your device for the same reason governments and advertisers do: because “full access to a person's phone is the next best thing to full access to a person's mind,” as EFF Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin explains in her TED talk on “stalkerware” and her efforts to end the abuse this malicious software enables.

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After years of studying how nation-state actors use advanced malware to spy on journalists, activists, lawyers, scientists, and others who practice dissent and advocacy, Galperin shifted her focus to how stalkers, abusive partners, and exes use advanced malware to spy on and manipulate their victims.

Of the companies that market stalkerware—sometimes under the guise of child safety or employee-monitoring software—Galperin told the TED audience, “Do these companies know that their tools are being used as tools of abuse? Absolutely.” 

We call on antivirus companies to recognize stalkerware for what it is: malicious technology with no acceptable use case. With groups like the Coalition Against Stalkerware, Galperin and EFF are leading the fight to educate users and push antivirus companies to “change the norm” around how they treat this technology to prevent abuse and protect victims.

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Hong Kong: Why China's national anthem bill is so controversial

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Record drop in energy investment, warns IEA think-tank

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Country was already rocked by unrest over the cost of living - then came coronavirus.

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Twitter fact-checks Trump as US president cries vote meddling

Social media platform has been tightening policy amid criticism it has allowed fake accounts, misinformation to thrive.

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ISL Transfers: Tiri joins champions ATK

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ISL: Why Sandesh Jhingan will and should be 'hot property' in the transfer market?

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'He has enormous qualities' - Flick praises 'great talent' Sancho

Linked with a move for the winger, Bayern Munich's coach spoke highly of the Borussia Dortmund star

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Ashutosh Mehta - Diego Forlan connected with players on a personal level

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Hong Kong ramps up security ahead of controversial bill reading

Protesters were urged to disrupt proceedings in an attempt to derail the bill's second reading.

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Hong Kong on edge before National Anthem Bill: Live updates

Riot police surround Hong Kong's legislature as protest threat looms over second reading of controversial bill.

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Trump hints at action against China over Hong Kong security law

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Henderson: It would be strange to lift Premier League trophy without fans

The Liverpool captain says that claiming a long-awaited title at an empty Anfield would be an odd experience

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From Ilhan Fandi to Farhan Zulkifli - Meet the future of Singapore

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Spain to mourn its coronavirus dead: Live updates

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Picture of the day for May 27, 2020

Castle ruins of Aggstein, Wachau, Lower Austria. Learn more.

Dortmund coach Favre: 'Brutally difficult' to catch Bayern after Klassiker loss

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'We took a big step forward' - Flick says Bayern still have work to do to win Bundesliga

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'Guendouzi needs to grow up' - Arsenal star warned over future behaviour

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Players For Humanity come forward in support of cyclone victims in West Bengal

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Republican National Convention: Trump threatens to move event from North Carolina

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Boy, 12, followed down mountain by brown bear

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Coronavirus: New York Stock Exchange trading floor to reopen

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Carrie Lam says security laws will not affect Hong Kong freedoms

Hong Kong leader tries to dispel fears about China's move to impose national security legislation on the city.

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Saudi Arabia to end curfew on June 21, except in Mecca

Bans on domestic travel, holding prayers in mosques, and workplace attendance will be lifted starting May 31.

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'He'll have to sacrifice and earn his place' - Scaloni weighs in on Lautaro's links to Barca

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FOX NEWS: NYC's Fleet Week goes virtual to stay safe from coronavirus

NYC's Fleet Week goes virtual to stay safe from coronavirus



Fleet Week, a Memorial Day weekend tradition in New York City, is hosting its first fully virtual event this year amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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ISL: Hyderabad FC's Liston Colaco aims to play more games as he looks to make a mark

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Shilton D'Silva and Abhishek Ambekar's flight postponed due to Cyclone 'Amphan'

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Indian Football Moments: Jo Paul Ancheri instant impact at Mohun Bagan

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Hong Kong security law: Carrie Lam dismisses concerns over rights

Carrie Lam says a security law planned by China is a "responsible" move which won't infringe on rights.

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'You have to get my bag as well!' - Pineaar recalls escaping hotel fire with Ibrahimovic

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WHO sounds warning on coronavirus 'second peak': Live updates

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Too early to compare Haaland to Lewandowski - Flick

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Coronavirus: The strangers reaching out to Kyrgyzstan's lonely teenagers

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Taiwan targets truth not justice as it investigates darker times

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Picture of the day for May 26, 2020

Berlin central station, as seen from south-east. The building is reflecting in the water of the Humboldt harbour. It was built by architect Meinhard von Gerkan of Gerkan, Marg and Partners and was opened on May 26, 2006.. Learn more.

'Leicester are a team to be reckoned with' - O'Neill says Foxes have found 'stardom' from 2016 title triumph

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Hong Kong security law 'needed to tackle terrorism'

The territory's security chief says the controversial security law will save the city from violence.

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Real Madrid should target 'humble' players over Pogba, suggests Stielike

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Taiwan offers help to Hong Kong activists as China tightens grip

Taiwan's laws already provide help to Hong Kong citizens whose safety and liberty are threatened for political reasons.

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Coronavirus: Chile's president says healthcare system 'very close to the limit'

President Sebastián Piñera warns of the strain on hospitals as the number of cases approaches 70,000.

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US bars travellers from Brazil: Coronavirus live updates

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Hart: I was fairly concerned when Guardiola arrived at Man City

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Serie A closing in on June return date

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Family of exiled top Saudi officer Saad al-Jabri 'targeted'

Saad al-Jabri fled to Canada but officials are going after his children back home, the BBC is told.

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Coronavirus in Sudan exposes new leaders

Some medics have refused to work and elderly people have been dying, writes Zeinab Mohammed Salih.

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Caribbean tourism reels from coronavirus

Tourism is vital to the Caribbean but visitors are absent amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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'I left my campervan in Argentina'

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Picture of the day for May 25, 2020

Winged altar at the pilgrimage church St. Wolfgang ob Grades, municipality of Metnitz, Carinthia, Austria. Shrine statues by an anonymous master probably of the elder Villach Workshop, 1490; reliefs and arrangement by the younger Villach Workshop, around 1520.. Learn more.

Kalekwa to AFC Leopards: Pay Sofapaka Kayumba transfer fee

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Football on TV this week: Matches to watch & live stream in UK today, tomorrow & this weekend

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Balinya: Gor Mahia forward sets sights on KPL Golden Boot

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Netanyahu trial: Israeli prime minister faces Jerusalem court

The country is gripped by the spectacle of a serving leader being tried for the first time.

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Giggs was an unbelievably overrated Man Utd player - Woodhouse

The iconic Red Devil has longevity and not sheer skills to thank for making his name at Old Trafford, according to one former player

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Hong Kong braces for protests on heels of proposed security law

Nearly 200 political figures denounce China's proposed laws as 'comprehensive assault' on the city's autonomy.

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Trevor Morgan - East Bengal needs stability on and off the field to achieve success

Trevor Morgan felt that too much interference in team building was the reason why East Bengal failed during his second stint as manager…

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Kolkata Maidan, Salt Lake Stadium heavily affected by Cyclone 'Amphan'

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Meet Priya and Sandhya - The duo scoring some 'Great Goals' in Chennai's youth football scene

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Western Australia prepares for 'once-in-a-decade' storm

The country's entire western coast is expected to be affected by torrential rain and massive waves.

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North Korea's Kim vows to further bolster nuclear war deterrence

Meeting of powerful Central Military Commission marks Kim Jong Un's first public appearance in three weeks.

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Eid: end of Ramadan celebrations go virtual amid coronavirus

Muslims globally find online alternatives to celebrate and organise Eid-related events amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Lyon president Aulas hits out at 'stupid' Ligue 1 decision

The Frenchman is less than impressed with his country's decision to abandon the current campaign as other competitions start resuming

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'Without logic from start to finish!' - Chiellini slams Bonucci's AC Milan move

The Italian defender says he could've accepted his team-mate leaving for Real Madrid but not another Serie A side

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International Proposals for Warrantless Location Surveillance To Fight COVID-19

Time and again, governments have used crises to expand their power, and often their intrusion into citizens’ lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has seen this pattern play out on a huge scale. From deploying drones or ankle monitors to enforce quarantine orders to proposals to use face recognition or thermal imaging cameras for monitoring public spaces, governments around the world have been adopting intrusive measures in their quest to contain the pandemic.

EFF has fought for years against the often secretive governmental use of cell phone location data. Governments have repeatedly sought to obtain this data without a court order, dodged oversight of how they used and accessed it, misleadingly downplayed its sensitivity, and forced mobile operators to retain it. In the past, these uses were most often justified with arguments of law enforcement or national security necessity. Now, some of the same location surveillance powers are being demanded—or sometimes simply seized—without making a significant contribution to containing COVID-19. Despite the lack of evidence to show the effectiveness of location data to stop the spread of the virus, a number of countries’ governments have used the crisis to introduce completely new surveillance powers or extend old ones to new COVID-related purposes. For example, data retention laws compel telecom companies to continuously collect and store metadata of a whole population for a certain period of time. In Europe, the Court of Justice of the European Union declared such mandates illegal under EU law. 

Like other emergency measures, it may be an uphill battle to roll back new location surveillance once the epidemic subsides. And because governments have not shown its effectiveness, there’s no justification for this intrusion on people’s fundamental freedoms in the first place.

Individualized Location Tracking 

Mobile carriers happen to know their subscribers’ phone’s locations (usually the same as the locations of the subscribers themselves) from moment to moment because of the way cellular networks work. That knowledge has turned into one of the most extensive data sources for governments—and not infrequently advertisers, stalkers, or spies—interested in tracking people’s movements. But while phone location data is sufficient to show whether someone went to church or the movies, it simply is not accurate enough to show whether two people were close enough together to transmit the virus (commonly characterized as a distance of two meters, or about six feet).

While location surveillance is problematic at any time, the coronavirus crisis has led to a rapid uptick in its use; many measures to facilitate it have been passed by fast-tracked legislative procedures during national state of emergencies. Some governments have even bypassed legislators entirely and relied on executive power to roll out expanded location surveillance—making it even less transparent and democratically legitimate than usual. Governments may use the urgency of the crisis to erode limits on the ways people’s location histories can be used, demand this data be turned over to authorities in bulk, or require companies to stockpile records of where their customers have been.

COVID-inspired cell phone location surveillance around the globe

Attempts at rapid expansions of government location surveillance authority have come to light in at least seven countries.

In Israel, in a significant win for privacy, Israel’s High Court of Justice has recently revoked the authorization of the police to access location data for contact tracing without a court order. On March 16th, the government had approved emergency regulations, 48 hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his government’s intention to approve health tracking methods. The regulations enabled both the police and Israel's domestic security agency (usually known as Shabak or Shin Bet, after its Hebrew acronym) to track the whereabouts of persons that might be infected or are suspected to be infected with COVID-19 without a warrant. The emergency regulation has now been suspended, and the Court has ordered that the government address the use of mobile phone tracking through legislation. Despite the win, the fight against warrantless access to location data is far from over: on May 5th, the parliament’s Intelligence Subcommittee voted 6-3 to extend the Shin Bet’s warrantless access to location data to track infected people, while the government is working towards advancing legislation to enable this form of surveillance more permanently. Right after the approval of the emergency regulations on March 16th, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel filed a petition to Israel’s High Court stressing the need to protect democracy during the pandemic:

Democracy is measured precisely in those situations when the public is afraid, exposed day and night to nightmare scenarios [...]. Precisely in such moments, it is vital to act in a considered and level-headed manner, and not to take draconian and extreme decisions and to accustom the public to the use of undemocratic means [...].

In South Africa, where a state of disaster has been in place since March 15th, the government amended a law to create a COVID-19 Tracing Database. The database will include personal data of those who are infected or suspected to be infected of COVID-19, including their COVID-19 test results, as well as the details of those who have come or are suspected to have come into contact with them. The Act authorizes the Director-General of Health to order telecom companies to disclose the location of infected or suspected to be infected person, without prior notice, as well as the location of those who were in contact or suspected to have been in contact with them, and to included all of this data in the COVID-19 Tracing Database. The law was met with severe backlash from civil society, and has since been amended twice. In a win for privacy, the last amendment deleted the provisions that obliged telecommunications companies to disclose location data for inclusion in that database. 

Poland, which has been in a state of emergency since mid-March, has a track record of encroaching on the rule of law, even triggering the EU's legal process for addressing violations of European values. The EU Commission has stated that the Polish judiciary is under “the political control of the ruling majority. In the absence of judicial independence, serious questions are raised about the effective application of EU law." Now with COVID-19, the Polish government has also introduced several COVID acts, providing new surveillance powers for the executive. Article 11 of the COVID-19 act obliges telecom operators to collect and give access to location data of people infected with COVID-19 or those under quarantine upon a simple request, as well as aggregate location data of an operator’s clients. The new legislation states that these measures will remain in place until the pandemic has ended.

Slovakia is another eastern European country that has expanded telecom companies’ obligations to retain metadata during the crisis. Slovakia has been in a partial state of emergency since March 15th, during which several amendments to the country’s telecommunications act were fast tracked through parliament. The amendments, which immediately caused outrage, authorized national health authorities to obtain location data from telecommunications operators in the context of a pandemic. As in Poland, the amended law allows both for the retention of anonymized aggregate data, as well as for individual location data.  After  being challenged before the Slovakian Constitutional Court, these measures have recently been suspended due to their vagueness and insufficient safeguards against misuse.

Croatia’s government attempted to introduce similar, fast-tracked amendments to the country’s electronic communications law. The bill would have authorized the exceptional processing of location data to “protect national and public safety,” and would have obliged telecommunications operators to share the data with the Ministry of Health. As in other countries, the proposal was met with outrage among civil society, experts, and opposition, as  more than forty civil society organizations signed onto a letter demanding the government to withdraw the bill. The criticism was eventually successful, but the Croatian example underlines the wider pattern of states looking to expand at any opportunity new surveillance powers in the crisis, in the Balkans and beyond.

Bulgaria, yet another Eastern European country in a state of emergency, has passed an emergency law, which included amendments to the country’s electronic communications act. The law now obliges telecommunications companies to store and (upon request) provide metadata to competent authorities, including the police, to monitor citizens' compliance with quarantine measures. The law does not require requests to be authorized by courts but merely provides for a after-the-fact judicial review process which the country also uses when retaining data to  prevent terrorist attacks. Not limited in time, the measures will remain in force even after the state of emergency has come to an end.  Like Poland, Bulgaria has been showing authoritarian tendencies for several years, and this extension of the country’s data retention regime, ushered in during the COVID crisis, may help solidify autocracy. The pattern of European countries reaching for location data surveillance also pokes holes in the popular image of the European Union as particularly protective of the right to privacy.

South Korea, a country with experience fighting coronavirus outbreaks since the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) epidemic in 2015, has dramatically restricted the right to privacy in the context of the pandemic. The Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Act allows health officials to obtain sensitive personal data on the infected and those suspected to be infected, as well as their contacts and those suspected to be in contact. Such data includes names, resident registration numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, prescriptions, medical treatment records, immigration control records, credit card records, transit card records, and CCTV recordings from third parties companies. Police can seize this personal data without consent of the data subjects and without any judicial oversight. The Act also allows health officials and administrators of municipalities to collect location data on the infected (or suspected to be infected) and their contacts (or suspected contacts) from telecommunications operators and location data providers (from cell site and GPS). 

Conclusion
Location surveillance comes with a host of risks to citizens’ privacy, freedom of expression and data protection rights. EFF has long been fighting against warrantless access to location data or blanket data retention mandates, and has called on governments to be more transparent on their surveillance programs. Especially now, during a major health crisis, in which the government has not shown the efficacy of location data about individuals, governments should be as transparent as possible about what data they are collecting for what purposes. Above all, the necessity and proportionality of any location data surveillance schemes must be demonstrated.

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