Coronacrisis opinie & analyse

Bekijk hier ons dossier over de mogelijke gevolgen van de Coronacrisis, met aandacht voor onze burgerrechten (zoals onze privacy) en voor de uitbreiding van het surveillance-arsenaal van overheden en bedrijven.

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Governments Haven’t Shown Location Surveillance Would Help Contain COVID-19

As our society struggles with COVID-19, far narrower “big data” surveillance proposals may emerge. Perhaps public health professionals will show that such proposals are...

Spying on everyone to combat COVID-19 will further erode civil liberties just like 9/11, privacy advocates warn

Tracking entire populations now with electronic surveillance, facial recognition, and biosecurity sensors to combat the coronavirus pandemic will inevitably mean even more invasive forms...

UK privacy activists raise fears over social distancing tracking

Privacy campaigners have warned that a UK government plan to use mobile phone data to track the success of the social distancing policy needs...

Privacy is geen absoluut recht, maar wel een noodzaak

In de strijd tegen het coronavirus speelt technologie een grote rol. We zetten het in om de verspreiding van het virus te beperken en...

Extraordinary powers need extraordinary protections

PI's response to proposals by governments to use mobile phone location and other traffic data from telecos to help with Covid-19 response. UK...

EDRi calls for fundamental rights-based responses to COVID-19

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease poses a global public health challenge of unprecedented proportions. In order to tackle it, countries around the world need...

Emergency Surveillance During COVID-19 Crisis

Israel is using emergency surveillance powers to track people who may have COVID-19, joining China and Iran in using mass surveillance in this way....