May 4th 2020

2020-05-04

Read Big Tech Won’t Save Us: The Case for Social Transformation over Coronavirus Surveillance

[[Surveillance technology]] such as [[contact tracing]] is being rolled out to track [[coronavirus]], by delightful companies such as [[Palantir]].

Rather than contracting profiteering [[disaster capitalists]] to roll out technologies of dubious efficacy and inherent [[racial biases]], it would be better to invest in reforms that build social safety nets and reduce structural inequality.

Pouring funding into technology that can detect COVID infection from vocal signatures, doesn’t provide the social safety nets that allow people to take time off from work when they are ill.