
The following is a project created by Natalia Molina Ballester for the course, Media, Culture, and Global Politics, taught by faculty member Nina Khrushcheva.
Countries such as China, South Korea and Singapore are using technology through mobile apps that track the movement of people. This is done to alert citizens if they are in high, medium or low risk of contracting the Coronavirus. In other parts of the world like in the countries of the European Union, the United State and Israel, governments are asking telecommunication companies to track population movements to monitor what areas are more likely to experience a higher contagion rate.
The use of surveillance to fight coronavirus in many parts of the world may be necessary now as it helps to save lives but it can have dire consequences for privacy, individual rights and democracy in the future.
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