Thread by @TrueSinews

Let's pick out a few key points of the #COVID19 coup

The State should mobilize ALL digital means of control IN PERPETUITY so, should it decide you need to avail yourselves of some 'safety measure', it can 'locate you w/out delay & provide you with "assistance"' 1/n

https://twitter.com/TrueSinews/status/1418094568420122624

Such "assistance" can be 'extremely finely targeted - eg, by exploiting #genetic data & #medicalrecords'
Backing this up, you'll be self-reporting your status in real-time via 'connected objects' & imaging cameras allowing #PreCrime - sorry - 'preventative intervention' 2/n

'Teams' can be 'positioned' to isolate people using smartphone tracking.
'Control - if necessary accompanied by sanction' is 'precisely where digital technology' is the 'most EFFICIENT'!
Efficient in the manner that whips, clubs & attack-dogs are 'efficient'.
#COVID19(33) 3/n

Quote: "[These] make it possible to exercise effective, exhaustive & real-time control of the population's compliance with the restrictions, accompanied where appropriate by dissuasive sanctions & based on the exploitation of even more exceptional personal data-"
#BigBrother 4/n

Of course, it weasels, this is 'detrimental to freedom', but it would be 'irresponsible' to at least not think about them, if only (Brooklyn Bridge For Sale) 'to do everything so as not to get to that point'
But, for the sake of it, our #DigitalGulag COULD comprise:-
5/n

A) 'electronic bracelets' to geofence you, cancel your travel pass & trigger 'control gates in stores' or switch on 'thermal cameras in restaurants, etc'
B) COMPULSORY medical devices, eg sleep sensors, the data to be acted upon
C) control of association with others
6/n

D) control of financial transactions [already openly being mooted via the imminent #CBDC digital currencies]
This would even check to see if you were buying MEDICATION (!) {no IVRMCTN for you, Gramps!} & anything else deemed 'contraband' or being rationed {not least #CO2}
7/n

While admitting, quote: "a low individual risk of catching or transmitting the disease... in the case of the #Covid19" 😱, it actually proposes charging you automatically everytime you take a 'risk' by LEAVING HOME...
8/n

-and could scale that fine to the state's arbitrary assessment of the highly-contingent 'legitimacy' of your excursion.
Cynically, it declares: "The greater the threat, the more willing societies will be to accept intrusive tech & stronger restrictions on individual freedoms" 9/n

Already, #France monitors much: linking #PCR /antigen tests linked to ID no., contact details, etc, but of course '#DigitalIdentity is the keystone of the "Platform State"' - the latter one of those technofuzz concepts which sees Leviathan as a sort of compulsory UberEats.
10/n

Typically, the abusive precedents ARE acknowledged but also simultaneously disparaged. "In the collective imagination, the collection of data is associated with the idea of ​​a police state & a 'registration' of the population" - the 'collective IMAGINATION', mark you!
11/n

No trace of irony here, either: "One... frequently mentioned argument(s) against the use of digital technology in the fight against #Covid19 is that these are methods characteristic of authoritarian regimes & other “#digitaldictatorships” that we find above all in Asia" 12/n

Yet, having denied OURS is such, the authors then pine for it: "If a 'dictatorship' saves lives while a democracy mourns its dead, the right attitude is not to take refuge in positions of principle, but to question the concrete means... to reconcile efficiency &... values."
13/n

It sums up: "Intrusive technologies & exceptional data processing are necessary: it is a question of crossing sensitive data relating to the state of health, with geolocation & bank details. Nothing technically impossible & not much different to what #FAANG do"
SkyNet rules! 14/n

You have (again) been warned!

15/n

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