Do you know InLoco? The Brazilian authorities began to use a system developed for the geographical surveillance of the country's citizens.
Authorities hope that with the new system they will be able to better control the citizens and thus slow down the spread of COVID-19.
Η Brazilian startup InLoco is the company developing this particular geolocation technology. It was originally used by advertisers and is supposed to track people with “better safety” working with users without collecting personal information.
Users are located geographically via a map from a system that does not use GPS or beacons. InLoco claims that this technology is 30 times more accurate than GPS.
The startup is based in Porto Digital, a tech innovation cluster in the northeastern city of Recife, from where the platform launched last weekend.
Announcing the new measures, the mayor of Recife officially announced that the city is monitoring at least 700.000 smartphones to check if the house arrest is being observed, as there are too many Brazilians, from vulnerable social groups, who have no choice but to continue working.
“We're monitoring neighborhoods with aggregated data to see if the restriction is being met. They are circulating cars with loudspeakers, and we send alerts via smartphone to communicate with the public," said Mayor Geraldo Júlio, along with 145 new measures to tackle the virus in the city.
As you understand from all the above, the monitoring and detection of offenders is the future that is coming to us.
Why not see similar technologies in Greece, if the current measures do not work as expected?
Such as Reported and Snowden "excessive effectiveness [of restrictions and surveillance] can also be a very serious threat to freedom."
To date, no one can dispute the severity of the pandemic, substantiating its view with scientific data. However, the restriction does not contribute to immunity, but to the decongestion of the health system, and to the silent waiting for a reliable treatment. until the vaccine is released.
Snowden emphasized that the problem it is transient anyway and will eventually resolve with vaccines and herd immunity. What will remain are the tracking technologies that if you read above "work with users and are secure".
