Loading ...COVID tracing apps ‘normalise surveillance’ of daily activities
Tech tools like digital contact tracing apps and artificial intelligence that governments in Europe and elsewhere rolled out to combat COVID-19 failed to play a key role in solving the pandemic and now threaten to make such monitoring widely accepted, a new report shows.
“The health surveillance technologies that many European countries deployed after the coronavirus pandemic erupted last year were often adopted without enough transparency, safeguards or democratic debate, according to a report released on Thursday by AlgorithmWatch, a nonprofit research group that tracks the impact of AI systems.”