There’s a small note in footer (or another places you probably never look) on some websites that offers you a form to complete (with your personal data of course) to ask them not to sell your personal data.
Keeping personal data private (and/or not storing them at all) is a basic right. Privacy is a basic right for humans and we should not fill forms to stop corporations collecting/selling them. Privacy is not a luxury, it’s a right.
As of today, more than 4700 people are dead and a lot of countries, like United Kingdom, are not doing what they can do about it. Italy, that has most cases in Europe, is now closing all borders of the country and it quarantined about 12 cities completely.
I told you before to follow the instructions your local government gives you to stay healthy but I’ve heard that some countries and governments are not publishing software to control the virus but they’re doing it to collect people information.
I believe staying at home and following instructions from WHO is more useful than anything. Please follow those instructions that are published by experts. Wash your hands regularly and don’t leave home for anything not 10/10 emergency.
Some people are taking it not serious. Some football (soccer) players are now infected and many people who were making fun of it are now experiencing this disease.
It’s not funny. You can die. Stay in home, stay healthy.
The word “paranoid” is somehow producing a negative feeling for people but I think it should be almost otherwise, specially when it comes to technology. I’m very proud that I’m being called paranoid sometimes because it means that I’m doing my job, to protect myself, right.
Some countries launched a program to track people who are in danger of getting infected with the new Coronavirus. If you’re in one of these countries, please follow the instructions provided from your local government. Your health situation is much more important. I believe there’s not enough time (now) to come up with an alternative to both track the health situation of people and being securely private.
I’m currently following the news about these programs and we may can force governments to purge data stored from citizens during this tracking program. If you have any information about this applications, please let me, EFF, and FSF know about it.
My contact information is on my contact page.
Contact EFF with details provided on eff.org/about/contact.
Free Software Foundation contact information is available on fsf.org/about/contact.