Article by Gabby Bush and Kobi Leins. University of Melbourne.
June 8, 2020.
In the last few months, ‘contact tracing’, has exploded into our collective psyche. COVID-19 has provided a need and an avenue for our governments to track us, citing our own best interests in the middle of a health crisis. But like anything, situations can change rapidly and solutions that were once deemed necessary can be used against us.
What was previously called surveillance now passes as ‘contact tracing’ for public health purposes. Yet the risks regarding the use of people’s data gathered in this way remain.
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