MIT just fell into their own trap
Patrick Wood -- Technocracy, Bio and Archives--May 1, 2020
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The masterful and carefully constructed lead paragraph in MIT’s Technology Review article Five things we need to do to make contact tracing really work states,
The ongoing pandemic is fertile ground for opportunistic hucksters, loud frauds, and coronavirus deniers who attack or blame everyone and everything from Chinese-Americans to Bill Gates to 5G networks. The latest front in this bizarre war: contact tracing.Medical surveillance has repeatedly proved to be a life-saving tool, however, and Apple and Google say they are making privacy a priority by building decentralized systems designed to make malicious surveillance difficult while also providing key data to public health authorities. (emphasis added)But, aren’t Google and Apple the two tech giants who know exactly where every phone (and its owner) is at all times? Don’t they have 100% of our personal identification data plus ancillary information about our purchases, preferences, travels, medical history, etc? Haven’t they already been investigated and fined by governments for mishandling customer data? And, apparently MIT, et al, have no problem in throwing HIPPA legislation out the door once and for all. You remember HIPPA, right? That’s the form you are almost forced to sign whenever you enter any type of medical facility. HIPPA is an actual US law (imagine, a real law passed by Congress) that stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It was passed in 2003 to provide privacy standards to protect a patient’s medical records and other health information, and yet companies like Google already have the full health records of millions of US citizens without their knowledge or consent.
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Patrick Wood, Technocracy.News is an author and lecturer on elite globalization policies since the late 1970s. He is co-author with the late Antony C. Sutton of <em>Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II. His latest book, Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation, focuses on the role of science and technology in the quest for global domination, and the elite who are perpetrating it.
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