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Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy

by Adam Tooze  · 15 Nov 2021  · 561pp  · 138,158 words

. Some containment measures were high tech. In Shanghai, before leaving either the train station or the airport, travelers were required to sign up for a contact tracing app.18 If you could not remember your own movements, a quick text to one of the cell phone providers would produce a list. Yunnan province

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

by Michiko Kakutani  · 20 Feb 2024  · 262pp  · 69,328 words

, open sourcing during the pandemic helped suppliers and enterprising amateurs devise useful initiatives for the production or distribution of ventilators, N95 masks, and other PPE; contact tracing apps; and the use of 3-D printing. Taiwan, for instance, made some of its COVID-19 data publicly accessible, empowering members of its tech community

The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge  · 1 Sep 2020  · 134pp  · 41,085 words

often showed the NHS at its best but it also highlighted problems, including control freakery and poor technology: just try Googling “National Health Service Covid contact tracing App.” Many continental European countries have better health systems, without sacrificing anything in terms of coverage. In continental Europe, Bill Lincoln would probably focus more on

Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle With Coronavirus

by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott  · 18 Mar 2021  · 432pp  · 143,491 words

incompetence was difficult to shake off. Certainly, the contact tracing fiasco wasn’t helping. On Thursday 17 June, the government announced it had abandoned its contact tracing app after spending three months and millions of pounds attempting to develop the technology. Ministers had insisted on using an untested method in which the details

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infection and 256; Brexit and 68–9; care homes and 280; Christmas restrictions and 388; circuit breaker lockdown and 353, 368; Cobra committee and 106; contact tracing app and 325; Covid infection 233, 238; Covid variants and 389; Eat Out to Help Out and 339; Edwardes and 120; government decisions presented to public

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97, 98, 99–100, 103, 108, 109, 131–2, 152, 156, 159, 174, 175, 185–7, 199, 206, 211, 238, 316–17, 325, 346–7; contact tracing app 325; diagnostic kits 97; Gove blames shortage of chemical agents 236–7; medical staff and 206–7, 236–9, 288; 100,000 tests per day

Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

by Nicholas A. Christakis  · 27 Oct 2020  · 475pp  · 127,389 words

so prevalent and spread so fast that it proved almost impossible to contain with manual contact tracing, as we saw in chapter 3. However, a contact-tracing app that made the process faster, broader, and more efficient—that automatically kept track of all the people who had been near a sick person and

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then somehow immediately notified contacts of positive cases—could help achieve epidemic control. Technology experts pointed out that contact-tracing apps with access to intimate location data from cell phones would be especially useful to governments in the case of SARS-2 because of its capacity

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terrorist attacks of 9/11. In practice, however, these apps do not offer enough epidemiological benefit to justify the privacy trade-off. Cell phone–based contact-tracing apps might not be that effective because GPS signals are not precise enough to indicate whether people have been within six feet of each other. Bluetooth

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called Hunala in late May 2020. The app respects user privacy, is voluntary, and provides a useful tool for people to manage risk. Unlike most contact-tracing apps, which are retrospective and indicate to subjects whether they have previously been in contact with someone who was infected, our app is prospective, forecasting the

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

by Grace Blakeley  · 11 Mar 2024  · 371pp  · 137,268 words

Citizens,” Human Rights Watch, March 25, 2020, https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/25/moscow-silently-expands-surveillance-citizens. 106. “Bahrain, Kuwait and Norway Contact Tracing Apps Among Most Dangerous for Privacy,” Amnesty International, June 16, 2020, https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/06/bahrain-kuwait-norway

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-contact-tracing-apps-danger-for-privacy/. 107. “France to Use CCTV to Monitor Mask-Wearing on Public Transport,” Privacy International, March 16, 2021, https://privacyinternational.org/examples/4463/

Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It

by Azeem Azhar  · 6 Sep 2021  · 447pp  · 111,991 words

. And these firms decided, without government mandate, to step into the fray. They updated their operating systems to enable some underlying components, which made building contact-tracing apps easier. According to Apple, both firms made design decisions that ‘privacy, transparency and consent [would be] of utmost importance’.8 The tech giants’ software updates

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became a contributory factor in allowing governments to build more effective contact-tracing apps. In this case, few could impeach the decision made by Apple and Google – it helped slow the spread of the virus. But it also underlined

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Costco, 67 Coursera, 58 Covid-19 pandemic (2019–21), 12–13, 59, 78–9, 131, 245–9 automation and, 127, 135, 136 cities and, 183 contact-tracing apps, 222–3 gig economy and, 146 lockdowns, 12, 152, 176, 183, 246 manufacturing and, 176 misinformation and, 202–4, 247–8 preprint servers and, 60

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein  · 6 Sep 2021

it wasn’t possible to be together physically. And tech companies across the board stepped up to foreground authoritative scientific information about the pandemic, develop contact-tracing apps to help contain it, and deploy artificial intelligence to hasten the development of medical treatments and potential vaccines and to power robots to handle tasks

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the COVID-19 infection rate. In pursuit of a fully modern approach to contact tracing, Google and Apple announced an unprecedented partnership to develop a contact-tracing app that would use low-level Bluetooth signals to alert anyone whose mobile device had come near an infected person in the past two weeks. As

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a revolutionary approach. Keenly aware of the fact that many people are distrustful of tech companies, Apple and Google have built privacy features into their contact-tracing apps to try to ensure compliance. For example, the technology doesn’t collect any location data. Instead, it relies on proximity data gathered through Bluetooth without

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of the United States, 63–65, 71–72 consent, 148–49. See also Notice and Choice/Consent doctrine consumer-privacy bill of rights, 146, 148 contact-tracing app development, 113, 139, 140–42, 242–43 content moderation, 72, 189, 201, 209–15, 218, 221, 223–24, 226–27, 262 Cook, Tim, 64–65

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, 134–35. See also Apple corporate growth and optimization mindset, 33–37 COVID-19 pandemic contact-tracing app development, 113, 139, 140–42, 242–43 effect of, xii–xiii governments’ responses to, 69, 74–75 Taiwan’s successful strategy compared to US failure

Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order

by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright  · 23 Aug 2021  · 652pp  · 172,428 words

fifteen minutes was put in state-mandated quarantine and contacted daily by tracers, who would arrange for groceries to be dropped off if needed. A contact-tracing app launched in June was downloaded 16 million times within a month. Germany was an early mover on testing, carrying out far more than other major

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/; Arshad Zargar, “Privacy, Security Concerns as India Forces Virus-Tracing App on Millions,” CBS News, May 27, 2020, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-india-contact-tracing-app-privacy-data-security-concerns-aarogya-setu-forced-on-millions/; Woodhams, “COVID-19 Digital Rights Tracker”; Anuradha Nagaraj, “‘Black Holes’: India’s Coronavirus Apps Raise Privacy

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham  · 27 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

-tank/2020/09/10/59-of-u-s-parents-with-lower-incomes-say-their-child-may-face-digital-obstacles-in-schoolwork/. 22 “Is a Successful Contact Tracing App Possible? These Countries Think So,” MIT Technology Review, August 2020, https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/10/1006174/covid-contract-tracing-app-germany-ireland-success

Reset

by Ronald J. Deibert  · 14 Aug 2020

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab  · 7 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World

by David Sax  · 15 Jan 2022  · 282pp  · 93,783 words