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The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently approved a technology that aims to surveil people by their digital activity and give them scores that define their âpotential level of superspreading activity.â Vaccination will then depend on the scores gathered using the technology.
The patent put forward by attorneys Gal Ehrlich and Maier Fenster of Ehrlich & Fenster proposes collecting a variety of personal information from different sources, such as mobile devices, apps, social media, web browsing records, payment records, medical records, employment records, the government, and other surveillance cameras.
It was also collect highly specific personal information from these sources, including precise location data, length of time spent at locations being visited, ventilation rates of these places, images of people looking at the screen of their mobile phones, sounds from microphones in personal devices, and facial recognition data.
