decorrespondent.nl > Dimitri Tokmetzis, Laís Martins and Morgan Meaker
De balans na een jaar coronatech: een paar privacyschandalen en vooral veel veiligheidstheater
26 apr. 2021 - Corona was voor veel landen een excuus om slimme drones, robots en warmtecamera’s van stal te halen. Maar wat heeft al die technologie opgeleverd? Wij verzamelden alle surveillancemaatregelen en zagen: veel ervan is voor de bühne, privacy komt soms in het geding en er zit nogal wat ongelijkheid in wie er in de gaten wordt gehouden.
 · apple · china · colombia · contact-tracing · covid-19 · covid-19-apps · drones · facial-recognition · google · india · inequality · privacy · proctoring · robots · singapore · south-korea · surveillance

slate.com > Heesoo Jang
A South Korean Chatbot Scandal Shows the Threat A.I. Presents to Privacy
2 apr. 2021 - A chatbot was trained on more than 10 billion conversations between romantic partners. Then the trouble began.
 · artificial-intelligence · chat-bots · data-protection · machine-learning · privacy · scatterlab · south-korea

restofworld.org > Grace Moon and Sungkwan Jang
Clubhouse is breaking down barriers in South Korean politics
24 mar. 2021 - The audio discussion app has become an influential tool in South Korean politics.
 · clubhouse · politics · social-media · south-korea

www.theatlantic.com > Zeynep Tufekci
This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic
30 sep. 2020 - It’s not R.
 · contact-tracing · covid-19 · japan · pareto-principle · south-korea · statistics · sweden

thecorrespondent.com > Felix Light, Francesca Musiani, Jenny Lee and Morgan Meaker
Why is Covid-19 surveillance tech welcomed in some countries but rejected in others?
17 sep. 2020 - Moscow’s high-tech battle against the pandemic turned into a public health disaster, but there was no protest. In France, there was widespread resistance to coronavirus tracking tech, but South Koreans gave up some privacy to prevent widespread lockdown. Why do some countries reject corona surveillance tech more than others?
 · collectivism · corruption · covid-19 · covid-19-apps · drones · facial-recognition · france · gay-rights · mers · privacy · resistance · russia · smart-cities · south-korea · surveillance

www.newyorker.com > Atul Gawande
We Can Solve the Coronavirus-Test Mess Now—if We Want To
2 sep. 2020 - The key to taming the pandemic will be both a new commitment to “assurance testing” and a new vision of what public health really means.
 · covid-19 · false-positives · healthcare · public-health · south-korea · united-states