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Circumventing parliament in March as the coronavirus spread, the Israeli cabinet approved emergency regulations that enabled the use of the Shin Bet technology, usually deployed for anti-terrorism. Privacy watchdog groups have challenged the practice in court as lawmakers considered ratifying it.
Smart-city technologies that combine citizen reporting and artificial intelligence (AI)-based sensors will help the government formulate data-based decisions to cope with the pandemic based on the real situation in the field.
“At the moment, there are 21 patients [being monitored] and 10 under close observation [surveillance], while we await [their] results from the Health Ministry’s Health Research and Development Agency,” RSUP Persahabatan director Rita Rogaya said on Wednesday during a press conference at the hospital, as quoted by antaranews.com.
Chinese firms are omnipresent at a Paris homeland security trade show, capitalizing on their vast experience in developing surveillance systems for Beijing to conquer the global market despite concerns the technology has been used to violate human rights.
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