COVID-19 Surveillance And The City
Surveillance and the City
English - March 25, 2021 21:05 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBTechnology Government spying policing big brother robots surveillance killer robots nypd new york city futurism Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In the final Surveillance And The City episode of the season, hosts Albert Fox Cahn, Liz O'Sullivan, and Ali Winston do a deep dive into all of the surveillance technologies that have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. While non-Western (especially East Asian) countries have received the harshest criticism for invasive and authoritarian measures to contain the virus, how have government responses in the U.K. and here in the U.S., for instance, expanded surveillance in the name of public health? To what extent do apps, wearables, vaccine passports, and other surveillance tech measures even actually work in stopping the spread of COVID-19? We also add to the chorus of critiques against Governor Cuomo, specifically highlighting his call for "Excelsior Pass" vaccine passports that will ultimately exacerbate medical segregation in New York.
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