6 trick questions to. Concentrate is one of the highlights here in south. China. Sea before the fire is pandemic paperweight for a. Hello im richard just bird and youre at the listening post the code with 19 and them is a news story like no other and like journalists around the world we are reporting on this from our homes our focus is on the media and information side of the coronavirus story this week were examining the unprecedented rise in the surveillance and tracking of citizens and the long term implications for society will also look at the United States and its problem with just information much of which comes from the very top the white house and president trying. In the worldwide battle against covert 19 more and more governments are looking at our phones to track the infected and to prevent the virus from spreading china south korea israel italy and others are using phone Location Software along with c. C. T. V. Video and credit card records among other tools to do that governments are understandably eager to use every weapon at their disposal in this fight and phone tracking has already proven effective in some places such as china but these measures come with all kinds of questions on finding the right balance between the need for Public Safety and the individuals right to privacy another question worth asking how long to the authorities intend to keep digging into our phones political leaders everywhere are likening the covert 19 fight to a war and it wouldnt be the 1st time that Extraordinary Security measures imposed ensuring a time of war proved permanent and problematic are starting point this week is your. Mobile phones have never been as vital as they are today in the midst of this pandemic billions of people are using their phones to find potentially life saving information to learn about the virus how it infects what the symptoms are and how to get help and depending on where you live the authorities are using your phones to as weapons in the fight against covert 19 theyre tapping into your data finding out where you are where youve been telling you where not to go the question is what else are they using your data for and how long do they intend to use it is when we talk about mobile phone they say that this is some of the most intrusive and detail that highly Sensitive Data and he had a bank of insight. That who they are where they are their networks as well and their behavior needs to be more done of transparency of what kind of data is in these but what purpose hes going to have access to it some of the most egregious surveillance abuses have come from china weve seen highly invasive measures to monitor whether individuals should be allowed to access Public Transit whether they should be allowed to go to work whether they should be allowed to go to school but theyre also providing bad data not just Public Health authorities but to Law Enforcement as well and the same exact technology thats used to monitor the spread of that 19 infection can also be used to monitor political protests religious movements and any other form of constitutionally protected activity. The use of phone data and the methodology vary from country to country johnny one song is an academic based in london he recently flew home to seoul upon landing the south korean authorities compelled him to download a phone app that questions him daily on his health on if he is showing any symptoms every day mr president about esteemed whether i have a fever or trouble in reading it so again i do point to my symptoms today. And you keep trying to some change to immediately take action and you probably. Redeveloped a permission and fly in there consult. With the government to call it being permission about him to take you to endure put them on demand and then as the interim government publish it when direct. Basically everybody has both this to the movement of individuals this or that has issued an emergency regulations they recruit the General Security Service to collect. The logical data which is presumably is location data and to answer for this data to the ministry of Health Privacy is at stake now privacy as we know is a fundamental human rights in israel it enjoys a constitutional status which is not absolute or to see can be compromised when there is major Public Interest the question is about proportionality other measures undertaken the best solution for the situation even more concerned about taiwanese model which involves the integration of variety of government databases including immigration and from a shot at Location Information onto a coordinated tracking network we must make sure that any information collected to fight cove in 1000 is kept completely separate from information used by immigration authorities if in any way this Public Health threat becomes conflate it with immigration and force that theyll drive so many undocumented americans into the shadows and then in a moment when we need every Single Person possible to get tested and get treated that that sort of measure could have really deadly consequences. The list of countries using phone data to survey grows longer by the day in italy the authorities are tapping into it to determine if citizens are adhering to the lockdown rules singapore is posting Information Online on individual cases detailed descriptions of those infected and who they have crossed paths with and the trumpet ministration in washington has consulted with Big Tech Companies like facebook and google on how the phone location data that they hold can be added to the new surveillance mix. That has set off alarm bells in congress and well beyond the u. S. On the implications for individual privacy even in times of rule and they are rules of engagement as defined for example through the team the conventions and similarly to this particular crisis there are rules in obligations when it comes the use if they dont acknowledge it and those still need to be enforced because even with the best intentions and some projects will have unforeseen or into unintentional harms its equally on those that are already more obscure nice the truth is this is not a war it is nothing like a war and legal terms in practical terms and how it should bring us together as countries to fight this alongside each other and i certainly think that some of the effort to transform covert 19 into a security issue has distracted from the Public Health responses we see our on a ray of for profit Surveillance Centers that are trying to you know market their software their hardware as a solution to this so i do worry that you know not only are government officials trying to read frame this issue as a security issue but theres an entire industry that has a profit motive to have them do just that what is happening people peoples mind these are pretty similar to what would happen today to work time government just pushed equipoise and some people reading to believe and actually people are willing to force a few individuals to think like you will what you do pretty p. O. D. Is not just to the emergency you still we also have to prepare this situation and emergencies will. In some places that day will never come Emergency Security measures are often imposed during a time of war the coronavirus threat isnt a military. Terry it just sounds like one when political leaders talk about a more time president this a war is a war different kind of war than weve ever had one of the commercial bumi from us she deserved were going to be good for the war in the allergies are getting a workout these days as politicians of different stripes try to rally public support we must act like any wartime government. Comes. To an engineer. And when governments lay down new security measures the kind that electorates would reject in normal more peaceful times history suggests that they will be reluctant to give up the us weve seen all too often that measures that are adopted for short emergencies are kept for years or for decades you know nearly 20 years after the attacks of 911 and the passage of the usa patriot act were still trying to repeal some of the margrets of temporary measures that were passed as part of that legislation measures that were supposed to sunset or expire just a couple of years after and so we cannot assume that any measure that we adopt fortify cove at 19 will die off with the death of this fire maybe to give you a completely different example just im to help with the analogy and when the Olympic Games were being organized in brazil and the brazilian authorities they played fast balans measures you ensure effective Law Enforcement and unfortunately a lot of the systems are still in place today because they become in banking we think there will be at the infamous mint one will be tell us one or another one of these systems are in case it is really difficult to backtrack the coronavirus course this is a civil course its not a terrorists not a war its Something Else this crisis will be over we might find ourselves with no violence thats good but with no privacy either and that will be a major loss for democratic countries and societies. As the pandemic spreads news consumers are searching far and wide for information they can rely on but what if 2 of your primary sources of news the government and the most watched Television News channel are setting aside medical science in favor of politically driven fiction thats what americans have been dealing with the stream of this information flowing from the white house has misled the public on the severity of the threat and has put lives at risk that is why one Us Radio Network has decided it will no longer broadcast President Trumps daily news briefings live Television News networks are debating internally whether they should do the same thats not even a question though that fox news the channel thats ideologically aligned with the president while it has gradually changed its tone on the coronavirus story no longer describing it as some politically driven hoax foxed still largely told the line set by the white house the stakes are high and its clear that President Trump and fox news are in this together come what may our starting point for this story is washington d. C. Discusses mark. Our prediction about the coverage of the corona virus and misinformation it was made about 3 weeks ago on americas most watched news channel economic and emotional and i mis information is going to have as much harder and thats my research and found of all the networks to sound the alarm about colbert 19 and misinformation that soundbite was on fox news it definitely is quite ironic news has been a steady source of misinformation about. The provirus peddling the idea that its no big deal i feel the more i learn about this the less there is story i want the same thing i did so the irony is not lost that fox is calling against misinformation while spreading. It would be difficult to understate the fox news factor in americas misinformation problem fox has taken a similar approach to the way it covered other white house scandals like russia and the subsequent impeachment hearings downplaying the seriousness of all ukraine impeachment saga pouring art water standing apparently goes on for attacking trumps critics as politically driven sham show and applied it to a Public Health emergency having so many people listen to one massive source for information its going to have that sort of bubbles through people that you know are connected to their in proximity to are still going about their daily lives you know as if this is not happening. A number of posts and fox news that its not as serious as it actually is. The fox effect can be measured a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center found that fox news viewers are almost 5 times as likely as m. S. N. B. C. Viewers to believe that the media have greatly exaggerated the threat of the coronavirus given that fox is audience is the. Oldest of the Major Networks and therefore the most vulnerable the channels coverage is truly dangerous fox has moved on from initially playing the story down succumbing as the president has to reality coronavirus every virus as we have been telling you you must take it seriously but it took far too long the network hitched its wagon to donald trump long ago and its coverage has mirrored the president s shifting position on the coronavirus story media dot com monitors broadcast News Coverage in the u. S. It bolted together a chronology of donald trump soundbites on covert 19 over a 6 week period as the number of cases in the u. S. Climbed alarmingly trumps message changed drastically how concerned they are we pretty much shut it down a lot of people think that goes away in april but in a couple of days is going to be down to close to 0 theres huge cheers there wont spread its going to disappear one day its like america almost everybody that we see is Getting Better but it took a everybody should think that vaccines i think relatively so. They are not taking this seriously enough and that some of your statements dont matter what your goal thats what youre saying the singer. Really work it out. Like that things are going to happen no i dont take responsibility but its something that we have tremendous control of i dont want to tell you how would you rate your response to this crisis. I dreaded it. Just a few days ago he really started using words like pandemic he said its really bad he acknowledges out of control but something years one again making him speak about it if it had been reports that one of the fox personalities. Who hes close to did start taking it seriously and we havent faced a medical crisis like this in living memory was talking to the president about how he did she change his demeanor on a message on a truck and his allies. Ryann manipulate the rhetoric and shift blame but they cannot manipulate the virus with the misinformation and you do have a free press here in the United States that will continue to report out statistics of confirmed cases and rates and even though well be getting that information trump and right wing media will definitely continue to shift the blame its particularly dangerous to lie in a crisis like this or to get people to do what they dont want to do to get a collective action out of a group of people that have different ideas of what should happen you need a strong Central Authority who people trust that has their best interests in mind by lying of course that element of trust. The Trump Administration had a trust issue with the governments own scientists although that too is changing in the early stages the white house was doing most of the briefings and dispatched its economic officials to calm the markets but the actual medical experts at the centers for Disease Control the c. D. C. Were initially sidelined anthony felt she who heads the National Institute of Infectious Disease is doing more public speaking now but as recently as march 1st when he had 5 different interviews set for the sunday morning talk shows the white house told him to stand down in favor of both the shots like Vice President ial mike pence im very confident were ready the administration has been silence and scientific voices and the very start of its administration particularly in regards to Climate Change and environmental protections theyve been dismantling the scientific agencies particularly in this case trout had dismantled the office that would have been of working on Pandemic Response to be fair. The c. D. C. And a number of other executive Branch Agencies have a fairly long as. Story of increasingly being reluctant to discuss things with the public or the press directly this was true during the Obama Administration as well journalists could no longer speak to officials from the c. D. C. Of course and the troubled history of this is gotten exponentially worse but it would be unfair to say that this was a trump innovation weve seen sort of a whole litany of. And. At and wise really from the administration that guns in the face of science and when it comes to Climate Change of course thats a huge issue thats sort of a long term Bigger Picture thing but right now the administrations antiscience talking points on the 19 were going to be going out immediately as people are going to get sick if they are listening to mr asian all in being elected to office and managing to stay there donald trump has proven that facts dont matter the way they used to that lies just dont stick to president s the way they wants to but the coronavirus story is difficult its about medical science 1st politics 2nd the facts are right there in the numbers the body counts and they are in contest could it be that Donald Trumps fake news narrative has finally been exposed met its match in something he has never had much time for science every one of these i just said that you know so much about this maybe i have a natural ability maybe i should have done that instead of running for president would be nice to think that its meant as match once external reality hits it however im much more skeptical of the broader breakdown is that people are accepting that criticism even good faced criticism is a sign of anything that there are you cannot take criticism without assuming that the critic is your opponent politically so in an ideal situation yes one would say that. Look this is reality we have to reject a large but it is not a preordained outcome that in fact the lies may defeat the truth even when the truth is obvious this is a virus its not a Political Movement and it doesnt have an ideology and it doesnt care about your ideology it just has a way of attacking our our bodies. Lack of clarity he attempts to not really grapple with the threat that the whole world is facing us just time and maybe it cost lives. Before we leave you a few words about the program youve been watching and the way weve put it together given the restrictions on movement here in the u. K. Where in my flat here in east london about 5 kilometers away from the offices we normally work from. Weve been coordinating on Video Conference calls that include our Editorial Team of producers plus our production manager our cameramen and 2 video editors all working from home our interviews have been conducted over skype weve only ever had 2 pairs of people working together in the same room and for just a few hours at a time theres me and our camera operator along with one producer and one video aired the rest of the team remains in isolation in their homes were going to get better at this and we hope as you do that its not a new normal finally this past thursday south africa joined the list of countries under lockdown a local supermarket there called pick and pay brought a group of musicians together not physically virtually in order to produce a video with a message how friends dont let friends and well see you next time youre at the list. But. With. The. Full of struggles full of pleasure. 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Im home i had seen in london with the top stories on aljazeera the number of Coronavirus Task continues its relentless rise in europe spain reported another daily high with 832 deaths within 10000 people have died in italy on the u. K. Watch as high as stay on day increase in fatalities while brennan has more. Such as the scale of this crisis there is a risk that the numbers start to lose meaning and the deaths become mista to sticks to be noted but scarcely mourned but in