Covid-19, Tech, and Ethics Issues

[rachel (Rachel Thomas)]

This is a thread for sharing articles, resources, and ideas at the intersection of covid-19, tech, and ethics. Two big categories are disinformation and surveillance/privacy. I will make this post a wiki so others can add to it.

Disinformation

• The Simplest Way to Spot Coronavirus Misinformation on Social Media covers the work of Mike Caulfield, a is a digital information literacy expert working at Washington State University Vancouver. If you are interested, check out the twitter account @infodemic for shareable threads about how to to tell fact from fiction on the web regarding COVID-19.
• Full Fact - The UK’s independent fact checking charity is a team of independent fact checkers and campaigners who find, expose and counter the harm it does. You can follow them on Twitter @fullfact

Privacy & Surveillance

There have been proposals to increase surveillance (through tracking people, sharing personal health data between public health authorities and private companies, thermal surveillance cameras, and more)

@hypervisible (who does a great job of covering privacy & surveillance issues in general) is keeping a twitter thread of articles related to coronavirus and surveillance:

One Ring (doorbell) to surveil them all... (hypervisible)

• Israel is now using counterterrorism tactics to track possible coronavirus patients
• Uber setting up a portal for health authorities to share info about drivers & riders
• Surveillance Company Says It’s Deploying ‘Coronavirus-Detecting’ Cameras in US

[inferential]

Thanks very much @rachel for starting this important conversation. I added a fact checking charity URL under the “Disinformation” category. It’s very crucial to actually check any information we read or hear generally, including this pandemic.

[rahulagarwal]

Thanks @rachel for starting this thread. I just came across MIT project for distributed, secure contact tracing: http://safepaths.mit.edu/ Given the names behind the project I would tend to think this is credible and probably the best we have right now for contact tracing but would love to hear your thoughts in case you have seen this already.

[much_learner (Valeriy)]

High-quality news, information. medical supplies sourcing and tele-doctor service https://www.germinfo.org/

[doithuong (game bài đổi thưởng)]

Thank you @rachel for starting this cycle. Theme pretty good.