Italy, Holland test China's temperature-scanning helmets

Coronavirus: Italy, Holland test China's temperature-scanning helmets: Experts say thermal scanning can be a good way to measure for fever, but question how effective such measures would be as some people affected by COVID-19 are asymptomatic and won't run a temperature.

China: A Vision of Our Post-Lockdown Future

A Vision of Our Post-Lockdown Future: In China, the QR code has profound
implications for a person’s ability to move freely throughout society.
Those who have a green QR code have tested negative for the virus and
have not been exposed to it since their last test. They are free to live
normal lives. These codes are checked at the entrance to subways, on
roads, at workplaces, restaurants, cinemas, supermarkets––anywhere,
effectively, that might constitute normal economic activity. If a person
with a green code should come into contact with someone who tests
positive for the virus, even if that contact is as tangential as sharing
a subway carriage with them, the code turns yellow. The person must
self-isolate for a period of seven days and get re-tested after to prove
they are negative. Anyone showing a yellow code in public is sent home.
Should a person have direct, close contact exposure with someone who
has tested positive, then their code will turn red and they will be
taken to a public quarantine facility for up to 14 days.

Linear ou logarítmico?

The public do not understand logarithmic graphs used to portray COVID-19: Mass media routinely portray information about COVID-19 deaths on logarithmic graphs. But do their readers understand them? (...)

Consequently, merely changing the scale on which the data is presented can alter public policy preferences and the level of worry, even at a time when people are routinely exposed to a lot of COVID-19 related information. Based on these findings, they call for the use of linear scale graphs by media and government agencies.

Juego del coronavirus: una forma de prevenir a los niños

Data Protection (RGPD) under SARS-CoV-2

Vigilância laboral

The Workplace-Surveillance Technology Boom: In The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff says the workplace is “where invasive technologies are normalized among captive populations of employees.” Despite this, employers have largely escaped scrutiny for their extensive monitoring practices from both experts and workers themselves.

Since the start of the pandemic, many companies have begun to even more aggressively track their workers’ productivity, and as workplaces start to open again, it is likely that the scale and types of data collected by employers will continue to increase to combat the threat of COVID-19.

Como está a evoluir a pandemia de Covid-19 onde eu vivo?