We all know that with the technology that we have today that we and our habits are been constantly monitored.
What we don’t appreciate is that this data is non-regulated, its use, and by whom it is all but invisible.
When Governments introduce a tracking App surely it should ring alarm bells to the erosion of Democracy.
There is no argument to saving lives is a given but the argument here is that with so safeguards, transparency, or legal rights over the storage and eventually removal of this data. (Centrally as in the case of England.)
It will turn us into digital slaves.
Since the arrival of the internet power has become invisible, with corporate-owned software running everything from the stock exchanges, to regime change.
Facebook and Twitter are partly responsible for the election of a USA president Mr. Donald Dump, the Arab Rising, the Brotherhood in Egypt, the false news, etc.
Surely to many of our forebears gave their lives for us now to throw away what is left of our freedom to create an autocratic regime.
If we want to live in a society like China these tracking Apps will get us there sooner than you think.
If you look at China its Communist Party is planning to implement a single citizen score using opaque algorithms that are largely political.
In fact, China’s social credit scoring is best understood not as a single system but as an overarching ideology: Its government agencies compile and share data on judgments against individuals or companies.
Default on your debts, and you will be put on the “List of Untrustworthy Persons.” Blacklisted individuals cannot make “luxury purchases,” such as high-speed rail and air tickets or hotel rooms.
The ripple effect on every part of your life becomes a multiplier on punishments. Warning, these people who are on the blacklist. When a blacklisted person crosses certain intersections in Beijing, facial-recognition technology projects their face and ID number on massive electronic billboards.
As you see in Hong Kong the government eager to quash free speech and root out dissenters.
The tracking apps may well help to break the chain of infections, but with dedicated watchers to record deeds and misdeeds it will lead to socially engineer behavior by ascribing a number to citizens.
Good deeds gain points; bad deeds lose them, with perks and hardships attached and it won’t be long before they take a broad range of behaviors both financial and social, all underwritten by an invisible web of Big Data.
Everything becomes negotiable, no one will make a decision.
Businesses need to keep in constant touch with the government in order to stay in the business.
What harm could there be?”
Where will it extend to next?
Now it the time to ensure that your hard-won freedom is not sacrificed but protected.
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Boris Johnston Ministerial message to battle COVID-19 is now Stay alert.
This is how to do it.
Stay:
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As with any software, there’s no foolproof way to know whether an app is malicious.
Pay attention to permissions, the number of times an app has been installed, the reviews, and the general reputation of the developer.
Be sure to keep an eye on permissions when installing apps. If an app you don’t trust much requires too many permissions, that’s a red flag that the app will potentially abuse those permissions.
It’s normal to come across apps that require too many permissions, but it’s often because that app actually is using your phone number, address book, and location to an advertising network’s servers so they can track you and serve ads to you.
For example, if an App requires permission to read your address book, access your location, and connect to the Internet, this is awfully suspicious.
Most malicious Android apps come from outside the Google Play Store. If you download a pirated app from a shady website, you shouldn’t be surprised if it brings malware onto your system.
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I have come across ‘world-changing’ technologies more times than I care to mention.
While all of this changed something, it really changed nothing.
Until now.
Social inequality is characterized by the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group or society.
It contains structured and recurrent patterns of unequal distributions of goods, wealth, opportunities, rewards, and punishments.
Inequality of opportunities refers to the unequal distribution of life chances across individuals. This is reflected in measures such as level of education, health status.
Functionalist theorists believe that inequality is inevitable and desirable and plays an important function in society. While conflict theorists, on the other hand, view inequality as resulting from groups with power dominating less powerful groups.
COVID-19 ignores both.
What will be the impact? The truth is nobody knows. Human nature, however, will not have changed even if there is a big change in the way we live.
The Coronavirus is a dress rehearsal for what awaits us if we continue to ignore inequality not to mention the laws of science- ie climate change.
Unfortunately, governments and policy authorities seem incapable of accepting or listing to the clear warnings or to plan strategically long term, and to plan for how to avoid and or manage a series of catastrophic risks that are mounting and threatening our lives and in the end our survival.
We continue to threaten significant harm to ourselves and to the planet by prioritizing economic growth while ignoring its social, political, and environmental consequences.
We are exhausting scarce resources, wasting food, polluting the seas and atmosphere, diminishing resilience to disease, disadvantaging poor countries with trade deals, fostering military and economic competition, collapsing our ecosystems, while allowing unregulated technologies to plunder the world for profit, eroding public trust, destroying transparency,, removing accountability, turning a blind eye to corruption in and out of governments, BECOMING GOVERNED BY APPS.
Only one of these risks recognizes national boundaries-trade.
So with that off my chest, it is up to all of us to become proactive than just reactive.
How do we become proactive?
BY follow COVID-19 example, spreading ourselves with reprussions.
Today, social media plays a large role in social reform campaigns. It allows citizens to be the source of ideas, plans, and initiatives.
We are now using it for every part of our lives – in our personal relationships, for entertainment, at work, and in our studies. It is not just changing the way we communicate – it’s changing the way we do business, the way we are governed, and the way we live in society.
However, no matter how much we howl on social media if we don’t back it up with our buying power nothing much will change.
When the economy of the world reopen we will have Bio Corna free products been promoted by unsustainable advertising, supported by unregulated online profit-seeking algorithms.
As we see with Oil when the demand disappears the price tumbles.
Before the dawn of social media, governments, along with the traditional media, were the gatekeepers of information. Nowhere is this now been challenged more acutely than in the world of international affairs and conflict, where the rise of digitally native international actors has challenged the state’s dominance.
It is now commonplace for people around the world to use social media during emergencies, and the volume of online information coupled with its rapid arrival is becoming increasingly overwhelming to humanitarian organizations.
Seeking a way to “do something,” more and more people are answering the call to action on social media after each emergency. There are numerous platforms to post petitions for support, but none that are really proactive.
The fact is that every day there is a local or global emergency happening somewhere.
However, the surge for action is chaotic. Humanitarian organizations and the citizens they serve are overwhelmed by the speed of change and the onslaught of information.
People who create user-generated content are often considered outliers and have not yet gained the trust of leaders within official institutions.
Across the world, there are branded hubs, labs, fellowships, meetings, conferences, and research. Governments, international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are all working on various projects.
How can these voices and communities become part of the humanitarian apparatus?
In times of crisis, data becomes the lifeblood of managing humanitarian operations.
But as access to data increases, how will people safeguard the privacy and security of those who need help?
What role should the main social platforms play during disasters?
Can these social networks work together more closely to coordinate their responses?
The thing no one can predict is always a good indicator of a fundamental we have missed. Coronavirus and Social media have provided it.
I can here, get a little banal, and explain how social media connects people and brands, it allows companies to become more responsive to their customers and it empowers consumers to interact with the companies they like.
All of this we know and much of it we had forecast.
It is not why social media is changing the world.
Social change of the type we are witnessing in our times does not happen unless there is an accumulation of detail at a personal level which can bring about a tipping point that can reach critical mass in a national pool.
A true break down of national borders and cultural barriers. It allows connection across billions of lives on a one-to-one basis.
Social media has been instrumental in creating cohesion amongst disparate rebel groups in Libya and it has been used to communicate and get organized by the demonstrators in Syria.
It has kept news and images coming out in real-time, appearing on Twitter and Google+ and has maintained the world’s attention and momentum in movements which might otherwise have fizzled or been squashed by their own governments.
For world leaders and governments, it represents a genie that has granted their wish for communicating with their people during election campaigns and the current Pandemic.
For the individual social media represents a challenge when it comes to filtering out ‘noise’ and finding out what’s real.
The true impact of social media in marketing, communications, and gradual social change is something which I think we will not see until we see it.
As the last scene of The Matrix: “I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid. You’re afraid of us. You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin. I’m going to hang up this phone, and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world … without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries; a world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.“
COVID-19 HAS CLAIMED AND IS CLAIMING MANY INNOCENT LIVES AND IS EXPOSING THE INEQUALITIES OF LIFE. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT IS ARMING SOCIAL MEDIA SO THAT THERE IS NO LONGER ANYWHERE TO HIDE.
Finally: What I am looking for here is the creation of an App that we can all support to effect change.
All serious suggestions considered provided they are nonprofit making.
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The malt must be mashed in the same manner as in brewing ale, and the hops boiled also the same way: and when boiled, the other ingredients must be added.
Porter must be fined as soon as it has done working unless you intend to rack it off: in which case defer the fining until that time.
When you put in the findings, stir it well up with your staff, and let the bung remain out for nine or ten hours. – the butt must not be too full, for if there is not room for the porter to work, it will not readily go down.
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Those that don’t know that we all live on a planet can be excused.
The rest of us are once more being taught a lesson that a man reach must go beyond his grasp.
This post is going to award virtual Coronavirus (COVID-19) medials to all those that fail to fulfil the above criteria.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic has had far-reaching consequences beyond the spread of the disease and efforts to quarantine it.
A dissonant babble of politicians all struggling, in their own way, to cope with the manifold challenges posed by the virus, from its crushing burden on hospitals and health care workers to its economic devastation and rising death toll.
In days of old nobility might have been a birthright these days it is defined by one actions.
So we remember them.
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Putting the American economy before its people.
Sold $4.1 billion worth of shares
Silver. Herd immunity. Economy first.
Gold. Made a speech in Washington in which he predicted dire consequences from the coronavirus, then cashed in millions of dollars’ worth of stocks just before the market dropped amid fears.
Gold. Cashed in stocks.
Gold. Cashed in stock.
Gold Refused to pay his staff.
Gold. Asserted that Brazilians never catch anything.
Silver: Preached to us from a bathtub full of rose petals.
Gold. Posted a picture of his £480 superyacht where he is self-isolating.
Gold: Called on his Twitter followers to donate to hospitals. He is worth over 150$
Gold: Accused of flouting the Lock down. While claiming £100,000. in expenses
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(Two-minute read) Which is it?
How far a democratic state can go to constrain the liberties of its citizens when dealing with a medical emergency — and raises questions about how effective the measures will be.
These difficulties point to the fundamental problem in keeping in check such a dangerous epidemic in a democratic country that values fundamental liberties such as the freedom to move around.
At the moment the main reason for these measures is to slow down and contain the virus.
The decree appears to be more of an instrument to try to persuade people to find ways to stay at home as much as possible, rather than as a list of enforceable prescriptions.
Locked down, is a combination of locked in and locked out. Elevated security measures.
Locked in, you cannot get out.
Locked away, to keep (oneself) alone in a room or place for a long period of time. To put (someone) in a locked place (such as a prison) for a long period of time. To put (something) in a locked container, place, etc.
Locked up, Jail.
Locked out. Securely locked up. To become fastened. To withhold work from (employees) during a labour dispute.
It can be difficult to establish where the appropriate danger sources might be so lockdown procedures should be seen as a sensible and proportionate response to any external incident which has the potential to pose a threat to the safety.
There is perhaps time for draconian measures to stop the outbreak but democracies must trust their citizens, now it’s time for us to earn that trust so people and our democracy survive.
Sadly, because there are no specific risk factors for COVID-19 it won’t be the last of measures that were considered unthinkable not so long ago.
At the end of that arm is a germ-bearing cell, any venture out in public carries some risks, whether the destination is a grocery store or a breath of air.
We take risks without thinking, and we can minimise some of those risks.
This is a strange new world we’re entering with no path to guide us.
Tread carefully. Putting these restrictions in place is far easier than removing them.
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This is with the current Coronavirus might seem an academic question.
However we the world have ignored for the greater part all previous pandemics.
For example, the Spanish Flu killed more people than World War I.
World War One and its consequences are etched in our historical memories but the Spanish flu is hardly remembered.
Ebola was on our TV and Aids down to sexual ordination.
Over 70 million are now infected with Aids. All connected to each other.
(Aids can take up to ten years after transmission to show its self.)
Thanks to a massive effort with the drugs to manage it are now affordable Aids is now no longer a killer.
So over the years since then, we have come to believe that Aids is cured. This is not so there are over 2 million new cases yearly in the world.
That gives you an impression of what is going on in the world.
This is why we need to take global health to the top of our priorities.
What do they all these viruses have in common?
They all come from animals.
However, this is not the problem its now a combination of infections spreading in urban high density, the enormity of mobility, climate change, conflict, deforestation, food demand, population growth, which means that we are and will be more and more exposed to what see today. With the results that the overuse of antibiotics and vaccines the risks are getting bigger and bigger to antimicrobial resistance.
So what should we be doing?
It’s not the global response that is important.
We need to train rapid support teams that can be deployed to help any country with a network of back up volunteers.
We need obviously, to strengthen public health systems in the world.
We need more effective engagement with communities
WE need to share Data and samples of viruses worldwide.
WE need Research &Development systems with no market incentives.
We need to suppress fake news.
WE need a universal flu vaccine.
WE need to understand that the risk of this Pandemic is enormous, and that is is not the last.
The key is to invest in getting rid of Inequality world wide.
Promises are not worth the paper they are written on. Once they are broken sorry mean nothing.
We need International solidarity with individual responsibility. Actions speak louder.
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