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One year into the pandemic, in Germany we are encountering debate around apps (see #LucaApp or #ImmunityPassports) that promise to solve the Corona crisis. The current debate forgets important questions for public interest 1/x
Currently the debate is all about "data privacy". But, is that all that is at stake?
Are there other questions that journalists, politicians and civil society could be asking that could ensure these apps serve the public interest? 2/x
Are there other questions that journalists, politicians and civil society could be asking that could ensure these apps serve the public interest? 2/x
Serving the public interest does not begin and end with good data security and privacy but needs to start with whether the apps serve the purpose they are designed for and do so effectively. 3/x
Ein Jahr nach Beginn der Pandemie erleben wir in Deutschland eine extrem verflachte Debatte über Apps (z.B. #LucaApp oder #ImmunityPassports), die bei der Bekämpfung der Corona-Krise helfen sollen. Problem: Diese Form der Debatte ist nicht hilfreich.
Aktuell konzentiert sich die Debatte auf "Datensicherheit".
Aber ist das die einzige relevante Frage?
Was sind die Fragen, die Journalist*innen, Politiker*Innen und die Zivilgesellschaft stellen sollten, wenn es darum geht, das Gemeinwohl nicht aus dem Blick zu verlieren?
Aber ist das die einzige relevante Frage?
Was sind die Fragen, die Journalist*innen, Politiker*Innen und die Zivilgesellschaft stellen sollten, wenn es darum geht, das Gemeinwohl nicht aus dem Blick zu verlieren?
Ob etwas dem Gemeinwohl zuträglich ist, hängt nicht nur von guter Datensicherheit ab, sondern muss sich zuerst mit der Frage beschäftigen, ob diese Apps tatsächlich dem Zweck dienen, zu dem sie eingesetzt werden.
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Thread Exclusive:
UK #COVID19 Negative Certification and a Biometric #HealthPassport at the very least are being considered & developed by @DHSCgovuk.
#NHSCOVID19app
#FreedomPass
#ImmunityPassports
#Industry40
Credit goes to @LutherBurgsvik for the contracts find.
Thread Exclusive:
UK #COVID19 Negative Certification and a Biometric #HealthPassport at the very least are being considered & developed by @DHSCgovuk.
#NHSCOVID19app
#FreedomPass
#ImmunityPassports
#Industry40
Credit goes to @LutherBurgsvik for the contracts find.
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On 18th December @GOVUK published a new contract titled "Covid-19 Certification / Passport MVP".
"A minimum viable product is a concept from Lean Startups that stresses the impact of learning in new product development."
contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/bf6eef1…
On 18th December @GOVUK published a new contract titled "Covid-19 Certification / Passport MVP".
"A minimum viable product is a concept from Lean Startups that stresses the impact of learning in new product development."
contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/bf6eef1…
3.
Titled "Covid-19 Certification / Passports"
Company is @netcompany_uk 👇
"@DHSCgovuk is planning to deploy a negative #COVID19 test certification to enable workplaces, educational centres, health & social care services & places of business to open to members of the public"
Titled "Covid-19 Certification / Passports"
Company is @netcompany_uk 👇
"@DHSCgovuk is planning to deploy a negative #COVID19 test certification to enable workplaces, educational centres, health & social care services & places of business to open to members of the public"
1.
Super Thread:
The Digital #NewNormal Part 9:
#COVID19 is fast ushering in the #GreatReset including #DigitalIdentity #ID2020 and #Industry40.
#NHSCOVID19app
#FreedomPass
#HealthPassports
#ImmunityPassports
#CommonPass
#COVAX
Super Thread:
The Digital #NewNormal Part 9:
#COVID19 is fast ushering in the #GreatReset including #DigitalIdentity #ID2020 and #Industry40.
#NHSCOVID19app
#FreedomPass
#HealthPassports
#ImmunityPassports
#CommonPass
#COVAX
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The first UK lockdown began on 16th March 2020.
3 days later this article appeared.
Bill Gates pointed to major changes for ordinary people that could have privacy and civil rights implications.
What did he say?
newspunch.com/bill-gates-cor…
The first UK lockdown began on 16th March 2020.
3 days later this article appeared.
Bill Gates pointed to major changes for ordinary people that could have privacy and civil rights implications.
What did he say?
newspunch.com/bill-gates-cor…
3.
“Eventually we will have some 'Digital Certificates' to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it,” said Gates.
Gates also called for a “National Tracking System”.
This was the first official hint as to what was planned.
“Eventually we will have some 'Digital Certificates' to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it,” said Gates.
Gates also called for a “National Tracking System”.
This was the first official hint as to what was planned.
1.
Super Thread:
The Digital #NewNormal Part 8:
#COVID19 is fast ushering in #Industry40.
#DigitalIdentity
#ID2020
#GreatReset
#NHSCOVID19app
#HealthPassports
#ImmunityPassports
#CommonPass
#COVAX
Super Thread:
The Digital #NewNormal Part 8:
#COVID19 is fast ushering in #Industry40.
#DigitalIdentity
#ID2020
#GreatReset
#NHSCOVID19app
#HealthPassports
#ImmunityPassports
#CommonPass
#COVAX
2.
"We must move on from Neoliberalism in the post-COVID era. The 'Great Reset' offers an opportunity to re-evaluate sacred cows, defining the pre-pandemic era: the coming #Industry40 and the digitization of countless economic activities."
weforum.org/agenda/2020/10…
"We must move on from Neoliberalism in the post-COVID era. The 'Great Reset' offers an opportunity to re-evaluate sacred cows, defining the pre-pandemic era: the coming #Industry40 and the digitization of countless economic activities."
weforum.org/agenda/2020/10…
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"The #COVID19 crisis is going to accelerate a number of changes and transformations in human society. Notably, the pandemic is expected to significantly accelerate the Fourth Industrial Revolution."
weforum.org/agenda/2020/10…
"The #COVID19 crisis is going to accelerate a number of changes and transformations in human society. Notably, the pandemic is expected to significantly accelerate the Fourth Industrial Revolution."
weforum.org/agenda/2020/10…
What garbled bollocks is this?
If this 👇 is genuinely the advice & not a spun version of it, in some feeble attempt to float the idiotic concept of "#ImmunityPassports" again, then it's patently absurd.
If someone develops "further symptoms" of #COVID19, then they could be...
If this 👇 is genuinely the advice & not a spun version of it, in some feeble attempt to float the idiotic concept of "#ImmunityPassports" again, then it's patently absurd.
If someone develops "further symptoms" of #COVID19, then they could be...
...#infectious, i.e. spreading the virus to others, even if they DO have #antibodies. Plus do we REALLY want to go down the route of having to #trust something the Gov't has issued, rather than the evidence of our own eyes?
The science on #SARSCoV2 #immunity is far from clear...
The science on #SARSCoV2 #immunity is far from clear...
...and even FURTHER from supporting any argument for #ImmunityPassports than it was at the beginning of the pandemic - when not knowing anything at all about #CIVID19 & #immunity made 'em at least a *theoretical* consideration, albeit a Very. Bad. Idea:
infiniteideasmachine.com/2020/05/identi…
infiniteideasmachine.com/2020/05/identi…
So, to @PHE_uk, #COVID19 is like a never-expiring #AffiliateCookie?
The numbers could get even MORE confusing when/if Government tries introducing #ImmunityPassports...
The numbers could get even MORE confusing when/if Government tries introducing #ImmunityPassports...
I have a question for this inquiry: given their significance, why has it taken this long for the Secretary of State for Health & Social Care to notice the way an Executive Agency of *his* Department, discharging *his* statutory duties, is counting deaths?
telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/1…
telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/1…
Journalist & civil society friends!
Has anyone seen anything more on COVI-PASS, a UK-based company that's reportedly supplying '#ImmunityPassports' to 15 countries - though not the UK (yet)?
From May 2020:
electronicspecifier.com/news/latest/di…
Has anyone seen anything more on COVI-PASS, a UK-based company that's reportedly supplying '#ImmunityPassports' to 15 countries - though not the UK (yet)?
From May 2020:
electronicspecifier.com/news/latest/di…
COVI-PASS seems to be getting rave reviews in certain circles - "Instant Global Dictatorship", "Fourth Reich", "mark of the Beast", etc. - but, given its extravagant claims, the company itself is keeping rather buttoned-down: covipass.com
(You can get a sense of what the underlying tech will do from the description of its #VCode platform/API: vcode.it/developers/ind… - but, as always, it's less the tech itself than the way in which it is applied and/or imposed that causes problems...)
And so it begins...
"If you won't put your details on this list, you ain't coming in" is a slippery slope - via "#ImmunityPassports"? - to the (digital) #PapersPlease culture that the #DatabaseState proponents have always wanted.
Muse on that while you sup your pint.
"If you won't put your details on this list, you ain't coming in" is a slippery slope - via "#ImmunityPassports"? - to the (digital) #PapersPlease culture that the #DatabaseState proponents have always wanted.
Muse on that while you sup your pint.
N.B. It's also a wicked marketing set-up for when/if the #nhsxCovid19app launches: "Oh, you're #surveilling yourself, madam - please walk right in! No need for that inconvenient list any more..."
What other #freedoms will folk #surrender for a mere 100cm?
What other #freedoms will folk #surrender for a mere 100cm?
Please note, I am not advising against - in fact I endorse! - sensible #clinical & #PublicHealth advice. Problem is, they just crashed into @10DowningStreet's idea of the #economy. (About which we'll be told more shortly, no doubt...)
Guess who loses?
Guess who loses?
It really isn't. As Peter points out in his [Thread] @CDEIUK avoids talking about what UK Gov't is planning to do, and carefully chooses examples that skirt the very real #discrimination issues - Yellow Fever? How about HIV status? And effectively mandatory #biometricID?!
The not-very-subtle "We can't do nothing, #ImmunityCertificates are the only option" framing is redolent of #Whitehall & #WestminsterBubble #groupthink, barely tempered by the admission we don't know enough about #COVID19 #immunity to reasonably consider such things. Meanwhile...
...evidence is emerging that some people don't develop #antibodies, even after having caught the #virus:
news.sky.com/story/coronavi…
At this point, #ImmunityPassports have even LESS chance of working / being useful than the much over-hyped #nhsxCovid19app - but with far greater...
news.sky.com/story/coronavi…
At this point, #ImmunityPassports have even LESS chance of working / being useful than the much over-hyped #nhsxCovid19app - but with far greater...
Today’s federal district court decision denying a preliminary injunction of Maine’s 14-day travelers’ quarantine + limits on hotels, inns & campgrounds is full of interesting analysis. Opinion here: courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
2/ The court rejects the application of Jacobson as a superseding standard of review for public health emergency orders, citing my forthcoming article w/ @steve_vladeck as well as @IlyaSomin’s @volokhC post. #JacobsonWatch
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
3/ Like the courts relying on Jacobson to uphold coronavirus abortion bans & other restrictions, the Maine district court misrepresents Jacobson as applying mere rationality review and nothing more (maybe less?), saying Jacobson “barely authorizes judicial review at all.”
1/6 In Gavroche on 3 May I envisaged a "predictable overcoming of the reservations on the individual use of serological tests" to identify those who have had COVID-19 and to evaluate their immunity by testing for antibodies in their blood. bit.ly/2L7sNR6 #SamRainsy
2/6 The WHO had warned that it’s "uncertain that the antibodies present at a given moment can give protection against a new infection by the same virus in the future”.
3/6 This warning opened a debate on the possibility of the same person recontracting the same virus within a relatively short period. Such a hypothesis on the absence of immunisation would lead to conclusions that would be both irrational and catastrophic.
