Facebook: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information Hub for Media

Managing the newsroom and wider publishing challenges during COVID-19

Dealing with digital security risk during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis: Key messages

•Digital security risk is increasing as malicious actors take advantage of the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic. Coronavirus-related scams and phishing campaigns are on the rise. There are also cases of ransomware and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting hospitals.

•Individuals and businesses should exercise caution when they receive coronavirus-related communications, and use appropriate digital security “hygiene” measures (e.g. patching, use of strong and different passwords, regular backups, etc.).

•It is essential that governments raise awareness, monitor the threat landscape and publish easily accessible guidelines for digital security hygiene, in particular to vulnerable groups such as the elderly and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Governments should also co-operate with all relevant stakeholders, including to provide assistance to operators of critical activities such as hospitals, as appropriate.

Ofcom: Covid-19 news and information: consumption and attitudes: This report summarises results from wave three of our research (fieldwork between 10-12 April 2020), which corresponds to week three of the UK ‘lockdown’.

Tracking and tracing COVID Protecting privacy and data while using apps and biometrics - OECD

Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Corona App

Immunity passports 'could increase virus spread'

Coronavirus: Immunity passports 'could increase virus spread': Governments should not issue so-called "immunity passports" or "risk-free certificates" as a way of easing lockdowns, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. It said there was "no evidence" that people who had developed antibodies after recovering from the virus were protected against a second infection.

‘Immunity Passports’ Could Create a New Category of Privilege: Proof of a prior infection could come with more freedom

The Health Passport — A Green Light for Tyranny? The Digital Health Passport is now being proposed in the UK as a safe route back to work and life. Few are aware exactly what this safe route looks like — and what the implications are for the future.

 

 

Automação agilizada por pandemia

Coronavirus speeds the way for robots in the workplace: Past experience suggests the advance of automation happens in sudden surges — and economic downturns are often a trigger.

• A 2018 study looked at three recessions over the past 30 years and found 88% of the jobs lost were in routine, "automatable" occupations.
• A 2016 paper examined almost 100 million job posts online before and after the 2008 recession and concluded companies in hard-hit areas were replacing employees performing routine tasks with a mix of technology and more skilled workers.

How an Iowa newspaper is covering COVID-19 for kids

Investigating Coronavirus Fakes And Disinfo? Here Are Some Tools For You

Distripress: COVID-19 Territory Status 17.04.20

Coronavirus tests Germans’ devotion to privacy: New initiatives to limit the spread of Covid-19 have sparked a debate over how far the government can go to control the pandemic

EU crisis response in tackling Covid-19: Views from the member states: The Covid-19 crisis has shown how difficult European cooperation can be, especially in policy areas where the EU has only a legal competence to support member states. At first, all member states were inward-looking in their reactions, unilaterally closing borders and focusing on crisis management at home. European solidarity has largely been absent. Ultimately, however, the lockdown realities across Europe are quite similar.

Collaborative fact-checking project in Latin America builds platform on coronavirus to help journalists

PE: A utilização de aplicações informáticas de localização e rastreio de contactos na luta contra o coronavírus

Children’s story book released to help children and young people cope with COVID-19 (livro em português)

Uma economia a encolher

Coronavirus could reduce world trade by up to a third, according to the WTO: The WTO said global trade would fall this year by between 13% and 32%, giving a wide range because so much about the economic impact of the health crisis was uncertain. At the height of the financial crisis in 2009, trade dropped 12.5%.

‘Rapid deterioration’ in global investment flows as Coronavirus spreads: Foreign direct investment flows are liable to drop by 30 to 40 per cent during 2020, into next year, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, reflecting a far more severe economic blow that initially projected, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said

Tecnologia portuguesa esclarece dúvidas online sobre a Covid-19: Assistente Digital Covid-19

Coronavirus Questions Answered: What We Know About COVID-19

Conselho Regulador dirige comunicado de apoio aos profissionais da comunicação social no contexto do combate à pandemia: A ERC congratula-se com o facto de se ter verificado uma postura de grande responsabilidade e um contributo de enorme valor social por parte da Comunicação Social portuguesa, na divulgação de informação premente sobre as medidas de combate ao Covid-19. A ERC considera que embora necessariamente o foco dos media incida, neste momento, na pandemia e nas medidas e conselhos médicos que lhe estão associados, deve existir, quer nos noticiários quer na programação, uma preocupação com a diversidade e o pluralismo, no âmbito da liberdade editorial dos diferentes media e, em especial, dos audiovisuais.

How long does coronavirus live on different surfaces?

Using AI responsibly to fight the coronavirus pandemic

Using AI responsibly to fight the coronavirus pandemic: With the imposition of lockdowns, limitations of movement, the closure of borders and other measures to contain the virus, the operating environment of law enforcement agencies and those security services tasked with protecting the public from harm has suddenly become ever more complex. They find themselves thrust into the middle of an unparalleled situation, playing a critical role in halting the spread of the virus and preserving public safety and social order in the process. In response to this growing crisis, many of these agencies and entities are turning to AI and related technologies for support in unique and innovative ways.

COVID-19: Effect on Human Behavior: How organizations should respond to the never normal

The campaign to promote a mysterious Soviet-era drug as a coronavirus miracle cure

Guía de actuación ante el coronavirus: Respuestas para saber qué hacer ante la sospecha de padecer la Covid-19, cómo prevenir el contagio o cómo convivir con una persona infectada

Los juristas avisan: se estestán aplicando medidas propias del estado de excepción

Los juristas avisan: se están aplicando medidas propias del estado de excepción: Se daban los presupuestos para decretar un estado de alarma pero la forma en la que se está desarrollando suscita muchas dudas entre los constitucionalistas. Entre otras cuestiones porque el estado de alarma no prevé una suspensión de derechos que de facto se está produciendo desde que el pasado 14 de marzo el Gobierno anunció esta declaración. Con la totalidad de los españoles confinados en sus casas -a excepción de una minoría dedicada a los servicios esenciales-, un Parlamento desactivado que no puede cumplir su función de control al Gobierno, y los derechos de los informadores limitados ante la imposición de unas ruedas de prensa telemáticas y encorsetadas, poco margen tiene el ciudadano para cuestionar la labor de un Ejecutivo que, en opinión de los expertos, «se está aprovechando de las circunstancias».

En una valoración estrictamente jurídica, los constitucionalistas consultados por ABC alertan de la extralimitación del Gobierno en las medidas que está tomando, que son propias de un estado de excepción.

Drone pandemic: Will coronavirus invite the world to meet Big Brother?

Drone pandemic: Will coronavirus invite the world to meet Big Brother? And straight from a dystopian film script—as successive lockdowns have been declared across the world from Wuhan to Lagos—authorities have begun turning to loudspeaker-equipped flying drones to enforce social distancing rules, a 2020 version of the van with a bullhorn on the roof, bellowing emergency alerts.

The Dawn of the Shout Drone: In the pandemic, authorities aren’t using drones to surveil people so much as to scold them.

 

Decreto 2-B/2020, Regulamenta a prorrogação do estado de emergência decretado pelo Presidente da República

Decreto 2-B/2020, 2020-04-02: Regulamenta a prorrogação do estado de emergência decretado pelo Presidente da República