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Source: RT News
Israel launches Covid-tracking 'FREEDOM BRACELET' as alternative to quarantine, as court reins in spy agency's contact tracing
2 March 2021
A pilot program for the tracking bracelet kicked off at Ben Gurion Airport on Monday, where 100 devices were doled out to arriving travelers as a way to avoid a stay at a military-administered quarantine hotel. Instead, those opting for the bracelet system – which features the electronic wristband, a smartphone app and a wall-mounted tracking device – will be free to return home to wait out the two-week isolation period.
While the device will alert authorities if participants venture too far from the wall-mounted tracker, Ordan Trabelsi, the CEO of SuperCom, the company behind the bracelet, said it does not collect any other information, insisting the tech is minimally intrusive.
"Nobody is forced to do it, but for those who are interested, it gives them another option: more flexibility," he said.
The pilot project – which Trabelsi has already called to expand to "thousands of units" for "wide-scale use" – may trigger further anxiety given SuperCom's past work with a number of governments around the world to provide "offender monitoring" services, using its tracking tech to surveil prisoners and detainees. The firm signed a contract last year with a government agency in Wisconsin to offer the same service, and also sells technology used for electronic IDs, voter biometrics and cybersecurity.
As the rollout of the tracking bracelets got underway on Monday, Israel's top court ruled that the country's domestic spying agency, the Shin Bet, must rein in its Covid-19 contact-tracing efforts, calling the surveillance "draconian" and a threat to Israeli democracy. While the government has employed the Shin Bet for tracing since last March, the court has repeatedly challenged the practice, finally ruling that the agency may only be used under special circumstances beginning on March 14.
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Source: RT News
Israel launches Covid-tracking 'FREEDOM BRACELET' as alternative to quarantine, as court reins in spy agency's contact tracing
2 March 2021
A traveler shows off an electronic bracelet as Israel introduces them to enforce Covid-19 quarantines, at Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv, Israel March 1, 2021. © Reuters / Amir Cohen
Israel has unveiled a coronavirus-tracking bracelet as an alternative to a two-week quarantine for incoming travelers, sparking privacy concerns as a top court moved to curb the Shin Bet spy agency’s role in contact tracing.
A pilot program for the tracking bracelet kicked off at Ben Gurion Airport on Monday, where 100 devices were doled out to arriving travelers as a way to avoid a stay at a military-administered quarantine hotel. Instead, those opting for the bracelet system – which features the electronic wristband, a smartphone app and a wall-mounted tracking device – will be free to return home to wait out the two-week isolation period.
While the device will alert authorities if participants venture too far from the wall-mounted tracker, Ordan Trabelsi, the CEO of SuperCom, the company behind the bracelet, said it does not collect any other information, insisting the tech is minimally intrusive.
"Nobody is forced to do it, but for those who are interested, it gives them another option: more flexibility," he said.
We call it a 'freedom bracelet' because we are not locking anybody up, but rather giving them the opportunity to go home.More: Israel announces Covid-19 lockdown easing for 'vaccine passport' holders
The pilot project – which Trabelsi has already called to expand to "thousands of units" for "wide-scale use" – may trigger further anxiety given SuperCom's past work with a number of governments around the world to provide "offender monitoring" services, using its tracking tech to surveil prisoners and detainees. The firm signed a contract last year with a government agency in Wisconsin to offer the same service, and also sells technology used for electronic IDs, voter biometrics and cybersecurity.
As the rollout of the tracking bracelets got underway on Monday, Israel's top court ruled that the country's domestic spying agency, the Shin Bet, must rein in its Covid-19 contact-tracing efforts, calling the surveillance "draconian" and a threat to Israeli democracy. While the government has employed the Shin Bet for tracing since last March, the court has repeatedly challenged the practice, finally ruling that the agency may only be used under special circumstances beginning on March 14.
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Source: AP News
Austria, Denmark Look Beyond EU To Israel For Future Vaccine
March 2, 2021 | By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and GEIR MOULSON
Ronald Zak, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz plans to visit Israel with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen later this week and confer with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on vaccine research and production cooperation. Kurz said Tuesday that his country and Denmark intend to stop relying solely on the European Union for coronavirus vaccines.
As part of its strategy, the EU has six contracts for more than 2 billion doses of vaccines, with Moderna, AstraZeneca, Sanofi-GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer-BioNTech and CureVac. It is in negotiations with two other manufacturers, but only three vaccines have been approved for use so far in the bloc.
Amid delays in production and deliveries of shots, the rollout of vaccines to the EU's 27 member states is lagging far behind that of Israel and some other countries including the U.S. and Britain.
According to the EU, almost 33 million doses of vaccine have been given so far, but only 11 million Europeans have been fully vaccinated. Israel, a country of 9.3 million people, has immunized over half of its population since late December.
Kurz said in a statement to the Austria Press Agency that it was right in principle to take a European-wide approach to inoculations, but maintained that the European Medicines Agency, the EU medical regulator, has been too slow to approve vaccines and pointed to companies’ delivery shortfalls.
"We must prepare for further mutations and should no longer be dependent solely on the EU in the production of second-generation vaccines," he said.
Kurz said Austria and Denmark "will no longer rely on the EU ... and will in the coming years produce doses of second-generation vaccine for further mutations of the coronavirus together with Israel as well as researching jointly treatment possibilities," APA reported.
Asked whether the move would undermine the EU's vaccine strategy, EU Commission spokesman Eric Mamer said all member states want to continue to be part of it,
"The point is that none of the member states has signaled in any way that they want to receive less doses based on our EU vaccine strategy," he said. "What certain member states are looking at is how to prepare the future. We will continue with our vaccine strategy exactly as before and continue to adapt as the situation evolves."
Mamer added that, with 27 member countries and a population of 450 million, the EU faces a much bigger challenge than Israel.
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This guy is a tech leader in what is going on. If you need any background information on Kulldorff who is from Sweden, read Technocrats, Great Barrington, and Bermuda Grass – Why Settle For Reform When A Radical Solution Is Needed? This is probably some of the most cutting edge and insightful material available on the internet as to what exactly is being rolled out that Kulldorff is involved with. From the material linked at the hyper link in the previous sentence, Sweden embarked on the world's first Health Impact Bond focused on diabetes in partnership with Social Finance UK and Social Finance Israel. What is being built here is "data-driven government" with Israel's Technion Institute tied into Cornell-Tech in New York through the Bloomberg Foundation that won contracts related to research projects into data science based on healthcare. These should not be called "vaccines," they are injections and a medical procedure.
#VaccinePassports would lead more low-risk young professionals to elbow themselves to the front of the vaccine queue ahead of older high-risk working class people. Bad public health. Opposite of focused protection.
— Martin Kulldorff (@MartinKulldorff) March 2, 2021
So, the inventors of neurosis and psychosis and hypochondria have their own biosecurity state. That is actually pretty hilarious. Psychoanalyze that, Freud.
If you are caught up in this discourse on what these Covid injections are and this medical tyranny we are facing then the following linked discussion would be well worth your time to listen to:
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