This is really awful, George Orwell’s and Michel Foucault’s worst nightmare: “24x7 ubiquitous surveillance” unless you decide to go off-grid and drink Labbatt’s in the Canadian wilderness
Regards / Saludos / Grato Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes > On Aug 7, 2020, at 10:45 AM, Yosem Companys <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From the article: > > Harvard began piloting Tracefi — a Wi-Fi-based contact tracing system — this > past Friday in preparation for freshmen and a select group of upperclassmen > students’ return to campus later this month. > > Tracefi uses the signals phones, laptops, and tablets constantly emit to > Harvard’s Wi-Fi infrastructures to gather three pieces of information: a > datetime stamp, the signal strength received by Harvard’s Wi-Fi > infrastructure, and the MAC address of the mobile device. The system then > stores the data for up to 28 days. > > Harvard will use the Tracefi data to aid contract tracing efforts run by > Harvard University Health Services and Harvard University Information > Technology by providing information to human contact tracers about the > specific whereabouts of infected individuals. > > https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/8/2/tracefi-wifi-contract-tracing-coronavirus/ > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial > search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, change to digest > mode, or change password by emailing [email protected].
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