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My favorite part is the invocation of counter-terrorism measures: Israel shut its borders to foreigners from all countries for 14 days on Saturday to try to co
by 1cvmask 5y ago
My favorite part is the invocation of counter-terrorism measures:
Israel shut its borders to foreigners from all countries for 14 days on Saturday to try to contain the spread of Omicron and has reintroduced counter-terrorism phone-tracking technology to trace contacts of a handful of people who have likely been infected.
- azernik 5y ago"Counterterrorism measures" is a weird way for Reuters to phrase it - gives the impression that what's "counter-terrorism" is the legal authority, when it's the technology that's "counter-terrorism". But perhaps I'm wrong about the most likely public reading. (Specifically - the security services' surveillance systems are flipped on for the entire domestic Israeli cell network, and known infected people's cell phone tower data handed over to the Ministry of Health along with that of uninfected people they were near.)
- busymom0 5y agoRelated NYTimes: > Israel's domestic intelligence agency has been granted temporary permission to access the phone data of people in the country with confirmed cases of the Omicron variant for contact tracing. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1465439194575253514 https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1465439194575253514