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France Developing Surveillance App Called “StopCovid” To Mitigate Virus Spread<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The world is sleepwalking<\/a> into a surveillance state. The march towards an Orwellian society is closer than ever, as governments have used COVID-19<\/a> as a perfect cover to implement totalitarian measures to track citizens that amount to human rights violations to “flatten the pandemic curve.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest example is coming from France’s health minister Olivier V\u00e9ran and digital minister C\u00e9dric O, who announced in an interview with Le Monde<\/a> that the French government is developing a smartphone app that will track citizens, by warning them if they come into contact with a COVID-19 carrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In the fight against Covid-19, technology can help,” O told the French newspaper. “Nothing will be decided without broad debate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

France’s digital minister said the app project is called “StopCovid” \u2013 and will be voluntarily downloaded on smartphones — will utilize the phone’s Bluetooth capabilities to notify users if they come into proximity to a carrier. The app only works if virus carriers and others have the software operating on the phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The application would simply inform you that you have been in contact in the previous days with someone who tested positive,” O said, adding that developers have been working on the app for several days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

French law currently prohibits smartphone tracking, unlike China and South Korea, that monitor their citizens to make sure COVID-19 carriers are quarantining at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several lawmakers in France have told President Emmanuel Macron’s parliament that they would be opposed to geo-tracking civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O told the French paper that the app uses Bluetooth and not geolocation and reaffirmed that the government would not track people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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France Developing Surveillance App Called “StopCovid” To Mitigate Virus Spread The world is sleepwalking into a surveillance state. The march towards an Orwellian society is closer than ever, as governments have used COVID-19 as a perfect cover to implement totalitarian measures to track citizens that amount to human rights violations to “flatten the pandemic curve.” The latest example is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[333,15456,29350,765,29349,855],"class_list":["post-52309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-france","tag-smartphone","tag-stopcovid","tag-surveillance","tag-surveillance-app","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52310,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52309\/revisions\/52310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}