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Traveling in the Age of COVID-19: Big Data Is Watching
Traveling in the Age of COVID-19: Big Data Is WatchingBy Bernard Brode on
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With news of the first dose of a vaccine successfully administered, it
appears that we might finally be seeing the beginning of the end of the COVID-19
pandemic. However, it’s also clear that the impact of the virus and the ways
we have responded to it will last for many years. Long after the health and
economic effects have faded.
Those of us who work in technology have been aware of this for some time, of course. Back at the beginning of the pandemic, we were warning that the security of medical devices might become a very real problem this year. Similarly, we warned that the use of big data to fight the pandemic ran the risk of setting a problematic precedent when it came to the right to personal privacy.