Electronic Tracking of citizens to restrict population

Countries are implementing electronic surveilance through advanced technology like Google and Apple.  These private companies are coalescing with the government to develop develop an API which could be used by countries' health authorities in order to build coronavirus-tracking apps.  Their ultimate motive may track more than Covid patients & people's whereabouts.

A live index of ramped up security measures by Top10VPN details the countries which have already brought in measures to track the phones of coronavirus patients, ranging from anonymized aggregated data to monitor the movement of people more generally, to the tracking of individual suspected patients and their contacts, known as contact tracing.

Samuel Woodhams, Top10VPN's Digital Rights Lead who compiled the index, warned that the world could slide into permanently increased surveillance.  We have a great guest caller named Joe from Montana, Singapore Mike & 3 cohosts.