Managing Director – Blyncsy, Inc. e inventor of the Electronic Device Contact Tracking Patent, 2016.
Extraordinary times require ordinary measures, don’t they?
We are in the midst of a pandemic that the world has not experienced for a century, aggravated by our ease of land, air and sea mobility, yet things are different because we are technologically advanced. So how do we use equipment and resources?We’re in confidentiality.
We have noticed examples of how immediate use of generation can help prevent the spread of the pandemic. In Singapore, cell phones have been remodeled into virtual ankle bracelets that have proven to be very effective. In Western culture, our appetite for such approaches is much more discreet (and rightly so) because the end does not justify the means, especially if it means a new regime of tracking, tracking and reduced confidentiality.
The Covid-19 pandemic is something we can expect to communicate about in 2022. It is highly unlikely that only about 8 billion more people will be vaccinated before this date, we expect 60% efficacy or more for a vaccine. In the U. S. , the feeling against vaccines can be only 35%, so we can end up with only 75 million of our 330 million other well-vaccinated people. We’re leaving in the long run. The threat is that we will give up privacy and civil liberties today to solve a challenge that can remain for two more years, and then the question remains: when do we have our privacy and civil liberties?
Many of us wonder if we allow tracking of our location information, download apps to our phones, and agree to provide other information. Let me give you the lawyer’s answer: it depends.
Privacy and concern that it will be invaded may obstruct the adoption of technologies that can be used to help us lessen the spread of contagions like Covid-19, but they also open the long term to the technologies of the next pandemic. Touch tracking is implemented in a way that undermines public confidence in its current use, can decrease the number of computers in our arsenal to combat this virus and, more importantly, can eliminate the viability of this tool in the next pandemic, possibly being more fatal and/or even more contagious than our existing contagion.
However, there are options. We may restrict the use of these technologies to appropriate environments, such as schools, dormitories, offices, and places for special occasions where many others gather for long periods of time. Technologies that are physically restricted to the spaces and data they access. and perhaps most importantly, it doesn’t require downloading to your phone, it can be the ultimate critic to help the public feel comfortable employing the generation to combat the spread of Covid-19. As we were informed of the reopening of the University of Notre Dame and the University of North Carolina and despite the entire closure of their campuses the same week, the ability to involve the spread of the virus is restricted through the number of others who manually suggest the spread.
At all times we will have to ask ourselves what we are giving up, if we deserve to give up and who can protect and regulate the area and our rights. Sadly, I believe that the lack of action through the federal government has left us in a no man’s land with little means to protect ourselves as consumers through the privacy of knowledge, period. It is up to us to ask the tough questions to protect ourselves and our privacy from contagions today and beyond.
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Managing Director – Blyncsy, Inc. e inventor of the Electronic Device Contact Tracking Patent, 2016. Read Mark Pittman’s full profile here.
CEO of Blyncsy, Inc and inventor of the Electronic Device Contact Tracking Patent, 2016. Read Mark Pittman’s full profile here.