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Technology is not inherently democratic and its human rights impacts are particularly important to consider in humanitarian and forced migration contexts. 1 May 2020 Pxfuel / (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication Refugees, immigrants, and people on the move have long been tied to tropes of bringing disease and illness. From…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente The Wall Street produced an intriguing piece the other day, “The Secret Group of Scientists and Billionaires Pushing a Manhattan Project for Covid-19,” which while picked up and signal-boosted by other venues — Business Insider, Daily Mail, Newsweek, Beckers Hospital Review (the best) — doesn’t…

Under a minute readApr 29th, 2020 8:35 AM EDT | LinkCellebrite, a company known for its iPhone hacking tools, is pitching its products to governments as a surveillance alternative to contact tracing.When someone tests positive, authorities can siphon up the patient’s location data and contacts, making it easy to “quarantine…

Civil liberties campaigner questions role of US data analytics specialist in health service’s data work in battle against Covid-19 By Brian McKenna, Business Applications Editor Published: 29 Apr 2020 16:25 Civil liberties campaigning group Privacy International is questioning the role of Silicon Valley data mining company Palantir in the NHS’s…

A functioning healthcare system depends on caregivers having the right data at the right time to make the right decision about what course of treatment a patient needs. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 epidemic and the acceleration of the consumer adoption of telemedicine, along with the fragmentation of care…

Caroline Buckee, a top epidemiologist at Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health, has devoted her professional life to studying malaria and other infectious diseases. As news of a novel coronavirus emerged from China, Buckee realized that her area of expertise—how infectious diseases evolve as they move through vulnerable populations—would…

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An enormous trove of hacked emails and passwords from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO), and a research center in Wuhan, China was released in recent days. The information was leaked on sites frequented by Western far-right extremists. Some believe Russia is responsible. Last night,…

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