At first, India said its contact-tracing app would be voluntary. Now it’s mandatory. More surveillance creep may follow.
) detain several key protesters under allegations of “rioting.” It is this legacy that makes many worry that COVID-19 tracking measures may morph into surveillance tools of a very different kind.
Vidya Subramanian, who works on the sociology of technology at the Centre for Policy Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay says that most people buy thethat a little bit of data is a small price to pay for safety, however one defines that. These small inroads, then, become forever normal. “The public health care crisis is being used to push technological developments that we don’t yet know will even work.
Correction, May 11, 2020: This piece originally misspelled Sidharth Deb’s first name and misgendered Vidya Subramanian.
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