
No one will argue that Big Tech and Big Brother have been spying on us for years. Tablets, Smart TVs, PCs, Alexas, and Echos keep track of what we read, watch, and say. Unlike the other devices, the cellphone is mobile which makes it the best surveillance tool. It should come as no surprise that governments around the world are either using it as a tool for tracking or considering it in response to the coronavirus.
The idea of tracking people for disease with their cellphones began back in 2011. Two scientists at Cambridge, Crowcroft and Yoneki, invented the FluPhone. The phone app worked as a warning system against contagions and helped the U.K. in stopping the spread. For example, if you went to lunch with a friend who immediately came down with the flu, afterwards, you’d be notified by your phone. Only 1% of the Cambridge population signed up for it. Most of the people found it invasive to their privacy. Now, the idea has resurfaced. U.K.’s CoEpi works like the FluPhone and might be added to all cellphones by default. Google and Apple are also involved in coming up with coronavirus monitoring apps.

China and South Korea have no qualms about tracking all of their citizens. In South Korea, the government sends out texts that report of nearby coronavirus carriers. The phone user cannot opt out of the texts. The app also enforces quarantines for those who recently were diagnosed with the Covid 19. China is even more restrictive. Drones are used for surveillance. Cellphones are required to get through check-points.
AliPay (from the giant online superstore Ali Baba) and WeChat (a popular instant messaging app) teamed up to create a monitoring system with color codes. Citizens are assigned by the government one of three colors, red, yellow, or green which appears on their phone app. The green color stands for someone who is coronvirus free. The Greens can easily get through military/police checkpoints, borders, transportation, and almost anywhere throughout the country. Yellow means that one is in contact with another who has coronavirus, and red means that one has recently been tested with the coronavirus. Yellows and reds are treated the same. They have no movement “rights” and have to be quarantined. There have been reports that the government publicly texts out people by name when they disobey their quarantine.

There has been a lot of talk on how we will reopen America while tracking Covid 19 outbreaks. Will we go the Chinese route and force surveillance onto all Americans? Will we use the Covid-Free certificates? Will people get arrested for ignoring quarantine orders? Will there be temperature checkpoints? I smell New World Order! Leave a message.














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