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Source: Daily Caller
Big Tech, Elected Officials Mimicking China's Surveillance Methods To Police Citizens Amid Pandemic
By Chris White | April 25, 2020
• U.S. officials are mimicking China’s efforts at tracking and attempting to destroy coronavirus while civil rights activists warn the plans could wreak havoc in a post-virus world.Surveillance measures elected officials and big tech companies are taking to slow the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. mimic some of the heavy-handed efforts China used to track and police citizens.
• Big tech companies are also getting involved as they work on location data contact tracing and gathering data that can track people who might not be complying with lockdown orders.
• Elizabeth, New Jersey, is one of several U.S. cities and states that is accepting donated Chinese drones that are being used in China to police citizens in the communist country amid the pandemic.
Two of the largest tech companies in the U.S. are using their technological know-how to track Americans infected with the virus — a technique Chinese officials perfected during the early stages of the virus. Elizabeth, New Jersey, officials are likewise using a Chinese drone company DJI to surveil citizens who might be violating lockdown orders. The U. S. Army banned the company over cyber issues.
China, meanwhile, has deployed similar methods in enforcing measures to slow the spread of coronavirus, or COVID-19, which originated in the communist nation. It’s since spread internationally, killing more than 50,000 in the U.S. alone.
Big Tech Uses Its Data To Track People
Silicon Valley giants Apple and Google are allowing their smartphone operating systems to use Bluetooth technology as a way of tracing people.
The decision has caused backlash.
Sen. Josh Hawley, for one, wrote in a letter Tuesday to the CEOs demanding the Silicon Valley giants commit to being held personally liable for how the technology is applied. Hawley has become one of the Senate’s harshest critics of the tech industry.
The companies insist users will be anonymous, but the Missouri Republican noted in his letter that such data can be "reidentified simply by cross-referencing it with another data set." Pairing GPS data with that from the project Google and Apple are embarking on can reveal identities, he said.
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