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There's been a lot of talk lately about applications to track people for the COVID-19 emergency. In the end the Government he chose the application called Immune which we will perhaps talk about later when we know more. It's a very delicate topic, we won't go into too much detail about it because there are so many variables at play no one has the truth in their pocket nor the crystal ball (also in Holland they are not doing well). However, let's take this opportunity to talk about an interesting topic, one that we often hear when we talk about privacy violations, tracking and so on. As you may have already guessed, we are talking about those who support, often quite arrogantly, "I have nothing to hide“. Furthermore, as you may already know, we often use these types of articles as an excuse to insert many interesting links!
Immuni, some interesting insights
Meanwhile, an inevitable small parenthesis regarding tracking applications, just to help you get your bearings a little. Here you can find an interesting comic, translated into Italian, which explains how the contact tracing protocol works. However, we also recommend reading this thread on Twitter and also of this article Of Enrico Nardelli. As you can imagine, it's not all that simple or rosy. If you want to learn more, we also recommend reading thelatest newsletter Of Carola Frediani.
Second The Verge for example one of the most important things is how the apps they will use will be implemented the protocol.
As the protocol gets implemented in specific apps, there will be a lot of important decisions about how it gets used, and how much data gets collected outside of it. Governments will be making those decisions, and they may make them badly — or worse, they may not make them at all.
Quote from the article in The Verge by Russell Brandom.
It is also important to understand what will happen once someone is recognized as infected, what the guarantees will be (work and social) and so on. Without obviously forgetting the tale of anonymous data. In short the doubts are endless, And not just about privacy, in Singapore for example it didn't go very well.
I have nothing to hide, we are not drug traffickers!
Let's get back to the topic of the article though, I have nothing to hide. We recently happened to read about Twitter a person who wrote, in response to a tweet by Professor Burioni, "I don't care about privacy, we're not drug traffickers“. Here's this concept that if you're not a drug trafficker then everything is permissible It scares us a little. And unfortunately it's a very common thought in so-called bar talk. Privacy is important and It took us centuries to get to today's situation, we must not take it for granted.
The phrase "di" is always present on the homepage of our site Isabela Bagueros: Privacy isn't about hiding bad things: it's about protecting what defines us as human beings; our daily actions, our personality, our fears, our relationships and our vulnerabilities. An important phrase that summarizes our thoughts.
Another important phrase is this one Edward Snowden:
Saying you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. It is a profoundly antisocial principle because rights are not just individual, they are collective and what may not have value for you today may have value for an entire population, an entire people, an entire way of life tomorrow. And if you don't defend it, who will?
Our translation of a speech by Edward Snowden – Exit, 2016
Or as the founder of DuckDuckGo, Gabriel Weinberg:
Everyone knows what you do in the bathroom, but you still close the door.
Quote taken from Marie Claire
I have nothing to hide: the importance of fundamental rights
THE fundamental rights they are always underestimated until they fail. Now that we are locked up in quarantine (sacrosanct, make no mistake) how much we miss our freedom which until yesterday we took it for granted? When and if the right to privacy will cease it will now be too late to regret it, let's make an effort and think about it first (before finishing worse than the bonze).
In this regard we take this opportunity to share with you an article from The Guardian about the tracking COVID-19 positives in South Korea. We discover very interesting things such as shitstorm who suffered a citizen online because the police revealed that they had not been able to trace his route from the train station to Seoul airport. Since the area around the station is known for prostitution he was accused, from the usual keyboard lions, of having spent the evening with a prostitute by turning off the phone. Subsequently, the health authorities said that there had been just a technical problem.
I have nothing to hide?
Another very interesting story that is always told by The Guardian is the problem related to restaurants. In practice, when you are found positive, your name is not told but the places you visited are revealed restaurants And locals. The restaurants in question, however, risk being overwhelmed by the wave of fear of being infected also risking bankruptcy. Not only. Someone he tried to take advantage of this situation (weird, huh?). A man who claimed to be infected with COVID-19 called several restaurants to extort money in exchange for his silence with the health authorities.
These are just the two more stories curious inside the much more complete article, which we highly recommend you read. Lovers, prostitutes, speculation about potential partners. Many embarrassing information can be exposed with a similar system.
We don't say no, we have no authority to say it we just say pay attention and of absolutely do not underestimate the use of potential surveillance applications.
When the system is ready Google will will install completely independently on your mobile phone thanks to the Play Store on all smartphones with at least Android 6.0. Then it looks like there will be some sort of opt-in to do.
The effects of quarantine
We can already see the effects of denunciation of some citizens and of absurd and disproportionate fines of the Police as fining someone for just buying wine. There is no doubt that someone has perhaps gone to their head a little too. Unless you really want to believe that stop for a few minutes in the park to blow soap bubbles it is a public health risk to ignore completely the risks and problems What can quarantine do to a child? Or could we also talk about the massive manhunt that has been set up to chase the very dangerous runners? OR the family fined for accompanying her leukemic daughter for tests?
In short, anything to avoid talking about it desire for de-responsibility of politicians.
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