These Last Days News - April 16, 2020
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All Eyes on ME - The Dawn of Digital Surveillance Has Arrived...

"It is known through history that once a country has given itself over to all manner of paganism and sin, it is not long before that country falls into a system of dictatorship, bringing great sorrow, even murder to the masses.” – Jesus, May 26, 1979

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WSJ.com reported on April 15, 2020:

by Liza Lin and Timothy W. Martin

In South Korea, investigators scan smartphone data to find within 10 minutes people who might have caught the coronavirus from someone they met. Israel has tapped its Shin Bet intelligence unit, usually focused on terrorism, to track down potential coronavirus patients through telecom data. One U.K. police force uses drones to monitor public areas, shaming residents who go out for a stroll.

The Covid-19 pandemic is ushering in a new era of digital surveillance and rewiring the world’s sensibilities about data privacy.

Governments are imposing new digital surveillance tools to track and monitor individuals. Many citizens have welcomed tracking technology intended to bolster defenses against the novel coronavirus. Yet some privacy advocates are wary, concerned that governments might not be inclined to unwind such practices after the health emergency has passed.

Authorities in Asia, where the virus first emerged, have led the way. Many governments didn’t seek permission from individuals before tracking their cellphones to identify suspected coronavirus patients. South Korea, China and Taiwan, after initial outbreaks, chalked up early successes in flattening infection curves to their use of tracking programs.

In Europe and the U.S., where privacy laws and expectations are more stringent, governments and companies are taking different approaches. European nations monitor citizen movement by tapping telecommunications data that they say conceals individuals’ identities.

American officials are drawing cellphone location data from mobile advertising firms to track the presence of crowds—but not individuals. Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google recently announced plans to launch a voluntary app that health officials can use to reverse-engineer sickened patients’ recent whereabouts—provided they agree to provide such information.

The first global pandemic in an age of ubiquitous smartphones has meant governments now have surveillance capabilities unimaginable during prior outbreaks. Data flowing from the world’s 5.2 billion smartphones can help identify who, where and how people get infected—and lasso in those who might.

The extent of tracking hinges on a series of tough choices: Make it voluntary or mandatory? Collect personal or anonymized data? Disclose information publicly or privately?

In Western Australia, lawmakers approved a bill last month to install surveillance gadgets in people’s homes to monitor those placed under quarantine. Authorities in Hong Kong and India are using geofencing that draws virtual fences around quarantine zones. They monitor digital signals from smartphone or wristbands to deter rule breakers and nab offenders, who can be sent to jail. Japan’s most popular messaging app beams health-status questions to its users on behalf of the government.

Authorities in Moscow said last month they used facial-recognition technology to catch a Chinese woman who broke quarantine and was walking the streets illegally. The police in Derbyshire, England, used drones to spot residents venturing out to a scenic overlook. Kansas recently said it used third-party GPS tracking data to monitor whether people were abiding calls to stay at home.

A little more than half of Americans now back anonymized government smartphone tracking, according to a Harris Poll survey of about 2,000 people conducted between March 28 and 30. In another Harris survey last year, Americans indicated data privacy was the biggest issue facing companies.

The perceived invasiveness of such technologies varies, but the tentpoles are shifting, said Joseph Cannataci, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on privacy rights. “Things are going too fast, and not enough scrutiny is being applied,” said Mr. Cannataci, whose next report to the U.N. General Assembly in October will address coronavirus surveillance and privacy.

Security professionals say the coronavirus crisis could become a watershed moment similar to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which ushered in new government surveillance powers around the world in the name of protecting public safety. Jim Harper, an original member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee, said that once such surveillance powers are in place, they rarely recede and can be repurposed as a political tool.

Surveillance efforts this time around have a new ally: public-health experts. They say some form of digital tracking will be necessary in the months ahead, even as people return to more normal lives after city lockdowns relax. Billions will live with a continuing coronavirus threat as the world waits for a vaccine.

Until then, technologies can allow officials to quickly identify carriers and stamp out new outbreaks before they spread, said Dale Fisher, an infectious-disease expert who investigated China’s coronavirus outbreak with a World Health Organization team in February.

The biggest privacy debate has centered on the involuntary use of smartphones and other digital data to conduct contact tracing, a process of identifying everyone with whom infected patients had recent interactions. Such tracing typically relies on in-person interviews with the patient. After singling out at-risk individuals, authorities then test and quarantine them, preventing the further spread of disease.

The most aggressive pandemic surveillance so far has been in China. Authorities there used mobile-phone numbers and location data to trace the identities of thousands of residents who had left Wuhan, the earliest center of the outbreak, for other cities over the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday. The information was then passed to local officials and neighborhood minders, who asked the targeted individuals to quarantine themselves for two weeks—even though many had yet to show any symptoms. Chinese authorities also used travel records and security cameras to identify people who had been in contact with the country’s coronavirus patients on trains, airplanes and street corners. Those residents also were put in forced isolation.

South Korea, a liberal democracy and one of the wealthiest Asian nations, built its coronavirus approach on public disclosures and technology. At its outbreak’s peak in late February, it reported more than 900 cases in a single day. This week, the daily average is around 30—without resorting to lockdowns.

A sweeping infectious-disease law passed after South Korea botched its response to a different coronavirus five years ago—MERS, or Middle East respiratory syndrome—authorized officials to produce dossiers of confirmed patients using cellphone data, credit-card transactions and security footage. Authorities are using such information to identify people who have come into contact with coronavirus patients, then encourage them to get tested or stay home.

Suh Chae-wan of the Minbyun Lawyers for a Democratic Society, which focuses on human rights and democracy, said the government has accessed information on far more people than those with the virus. Even though officials are required to notify individuals when their personal information is being used for investigation, only confirmed patients themselves appear to have been notified so far, he said.

South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declined to say how many individuals’ data had been accessed. It does so, a spokesman said, only when a person violates self-quarantine or if necessary for contact-tracing purposes.

South Korean government websites publish detailed reports about confirmed coronavirus cases. The reports include patients’ ages, work and home addresses and personal details such as the restaurants they frequent and trips to family get-togethers and even to get massages. One aim was to show people where not to go.

Although the dossiers don’t provide names, they sometimes provide enough clues for individuals to be identified. That has led to patients being targeted online with unfounded accusations and hate speech, according to a recent letter signed by more than a dozen South Korean advocacy groups, including the Minbyun lawyers organization.

On March 4, the country’s infectious-disease law was expanded. It granted not just health officials, but local government heads, the power to request information. The government said it can identify and locate at-risk patients in 10 minutes or less by automating access to personal information.

One South Korean coronavirus patient detailed on her blog how quickly neighbors figured out her identity. Her apartment building name had been shared, and fellow residents started asking others what floor her family lived on and their room number.

“It gave me shivers,” wrote the blogger, who didn’t respond to interview requests. “I was afraid of how people would view me and my children, and worried people would come to our house. That was scarier than contracting the virus.”

In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mobilized the Shin Bet, the nation’s domestic intelligence unit, to collaborate with the country’s health ministry to halt coronavirus spread. The Shin Bet gained access to a telecom database previously used only to fight terrorism and espionage. That meant citizens who had come into contact with coronavirus carriers would be sent a text message telling them to quarantine themselves for two weeks. Those who knowingly violate self-quarantine face fines.

Officials at Israel’s health ministry have praised the Shin Bet program, calling it crucial to stopping the spread of the virus. Some 500 people identified by the Shin Bet eventually tested positive, the agency said on March 26.

The Israeli Medical Association questioned why such intrusive monitoring was necessary with most of the public already largely confined to their homes by government order. In a letter to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, the association said the lack of input from epidemiologists and public-health specialists raises the likelihood of errors. It recommended testing and other preventive measures instead.

Within days, Israel’s Supreme Court ordered the Knesset to set up a supervisory committee to oversee the tracking.

Tel Aviv gynecologist Itamar Zilberman got himself tested for the coronavirus after coming down with a fever and cough in mid-March. He initially tested positive, but a repeat check declared him free of the virus.

Israel health authorities input his data incorrectly because of a typing error, Dr. Zilberman said. The Shin Bet immediately began using cellphone location data to track down the people Dr. Zilberman had been in contact with. His colleagues and family received text messages from the government requiring them to stay home for 14 days, even though Dr. Zilberman faced no such restrictions.

Israeli health authorities didn’t respond to emails seeking comment.

As Israel prepares to reopen, the country’s defense minister wants to introduce a digital health-rating system that ranks all citizens on a 1-to-10 scale. Those with high risk would have higher scores. The real-time rating could nudge up, for instance, if government tracking reveals a person had recently visited an infected area. Anyone graded at 9.5 or above would have to be tested. The proposed system awaits signoff from the attorney general and prime minister.

In Germany, home to some of the world’s most stringent privacy laws, Health Minister Jens Spahn, a conservative, defended a bill he proposed last month borrowing some mobile-phone tactics from South Korea to “very quickly investigate infection chains.”

The proposal would have allowed officials to use cellphone data to track the movements of people who tested positive. The measure was quickly criticized by privacy advocates and rival political parties, and the bill was put on ice.

Lawmakers are learning that voluntary contact-tracing apps that claim to preserve users’ privacy, such as the one proposed by Apple and Google, aren’t effective without high levels of participation.

Only about one-fifth of Singapore’s 5.6 million residents have downloaded the government’s “TraceTogether” app, even after health officials implored citizens to partake. The tally must rise by millions more to be effective, the government said.

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These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995:

FALLEN TO SATAN
"We send from the Eternal Kingdom of the Lord high God in Heaven a warning to mankind. A great War will be soon upon you, claiming many lives throughout your earth. You will prepare yourselves and the souls of those you love. 
     "Your country has fallen to satan. Many countries throughout your world have given themselves to satan. The leaders in your country need many prayers.” – St. Michael, June 18, 1975

“YOU HOLD THE BALANCE”
"Your country, the United States of America, and many other countries of the world are being deceived. While they go forward seeking peace, the enemies of your God and your country are fast preparing to attack. Pray a constant vigilance of prayer, and recognize the faces of evil about you. Pray for the leaders of your country, My children. You hold the balance for the fate of your country.” – Our Lady, August 21, 1976

COUNTRY UNPROTECTED
"As I have warned you in the past, My children, while foolish man ran about crying peace, love, and brotherhood, planning to disarm, to leave your country unprotected, others whom your leaders shake hands with are planning your destruction. 
     "My children, an arsenal of arms now are being gathered throughout the world. They are major instruments of destruction. It is the regime of terror that man has brought upon himself by rejecting his God. 
     "Your country, the United States and America, has become a land of pagans. Your country and America and many countries of the world have given themselves over to all manner of pleasures of the flesh and defilement of the human body and desecration of their bodies and their spirits.” – Our Lady, February 1, 1978

FURY OF AN ANGRY GOD
"Sin has become a way of life in your country and all of the nations of earth! I say unto you: many hearts shall grieve, but too late will they seek to do penance! Too late will they seek to right the wrong. As you sow, you shall reap! And as you are sowing now, you shall reap the fury of an angry God.” - Jesus, May 28, 1977

WRATH OF THE FATHER
"Much tribulation lies ahead, but these trials have been brought upon you by man. As it was in the days of Noe, so it is in your day that man is prideful and arrogant, seeking to place scientific knowledge above the Father. Rationalization for sin, so that sin now is a way of life! Souls in darkness, homes in darkness, and churches in darkness--whatever will become of you? You ask for the wrath of the Father upon you!” - St. Paul, March 24, 1974

PRAY FOR LEADERS
"The leaders of your country and the leaders throughout the world have taken upon themselves a measure of sin creating insanity. 
     "In the light of the Spirit descending from Heaven, you shall be given the knowledge of truth, My children. Accept it and take it as your candle, for you must now go throughout your world saving your brothers, preparing them for what lies ahead.” – Our Lady, September 13, 1975

FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT
"Your leader, Roosevelt, is in hell! Franklin Roosevelt, My child. His spirit is one of darkness. He enters anew upon earth from the abyss.  My child, I do not expect you to understand at this time all I am having you repeat." - Our Lady, September 13, 1975

TED KENNEDY
"Many have been baptized--washed clean in the Faith, and now have chosen to destroy.
     "I sent you, My child, into your capital city to approach two with great power. We were not mistaken in the reaction, My child; More prayers are needed. You will write, and you must give out the knowledge without hesitating, that Heaven expects and commands the last of his clan [Ted Kennedy] in manhood to speak out and defend his Faith in your city of Washington! If he does not, My child, he will be condemned. He will be taken, My child, when he is unprepared.
     "Warn him once more, My child and My children, in the mercy that you have for your brothers. Speak out without fear, My child. It is too late; the hour grows late. You must now speak out and use the name. 
     "You will write to Ted Kennedy and tell him that he faces eternal damnation."  - Our Lady, September 6, 1975

SIN A WAY OF LIFE
"My child and My children, as it was in the past, so it shall be. There are many now foul deeds being committed upon the earth that cry to Heaven for retribution. The leaders of your country have lost their way, My child and My children. They are now making sin a way of life.” – Our Lady, October 6, 1992

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A great obligation to go forward... "It is not by accident that you are called by My Mother, for it is by merit and the prayers that have risen to Heaven for your salvation.  For those who have received the grace to hear the Message from Heaven, you have a great obligation to go forward and bring this Message to your brothers and sisters.  Do not expect a rest upon your earth, for you will have eternal rest very soon." - Jesus, June 12, 1976

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