{"id":43099,"date":"2020-03-23T09:05:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T14:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43099"},"modified":"2020-03-23T09:05:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T14:05:19","slug":"nytimes-as-coronavirus-surveillance-escalates-personal-privacy-plummets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43099","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/23\/technology\/coronavirus-surveillance-tracking-privacy.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets<\/a> by Natasha Singer and Choe Sang-Hun:<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In South Korea, government agencies are harnessing surveillance-camera footage, smartphone location data and credit card purchase records to help trace the recent movements of coronavirus patients and establish virus transmission chains.<\/p><p><br \/>In Lombardy, Italy, the authorities are analyzing location data transmitted by citizens\u2019 mobile phones to determine how many people are obeying a government lockdown order and the typical distances they move every day. About 40 percent are moving around \u201ctoo much,\u201d an official recently said.<br \/><\/p><p>In Israel, the country\u2019s internal security agency is poised to start using a cache of mobile phone location data \u2014 originally intended for counterterrorism operations \u2014 to try to pinpoint citizens who may have been exposed to the virus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets by Natasha Singer and Choe Sang-Hun:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43100,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43099\/revisions\/43100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}