{"id":247199,"date":"2021-12-18T08:38:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T08:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=247199"},"modified":"2021-12-21T08:28:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T08:28:05","slug":"democratic-south-korea-set-to-adopt-china-style-mass-surveillance-system-to-track-covid-is-this-coming-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=247199","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDemocratic\u201d South Korea set to adopt China-style mass surveillance system to \u201ctrack COVID\u201d \u2013 Is this coming to America?"},"content":{"rendered":"

JD Heyes \u2013 Medicine.news Dec 17, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Once again, the leaders of a \u201cdemocratic\u201d Western-style country are using the COVID-19 pandemic to implement authoritarian control measures over their people, and it\u2019s going to be control they\u2019re never going to peacefully let go of.<\/p>\n

South Korean health officials, with the blessing of the country\u2019s government, is \u201cset to launch in January will test the tracking of citizens with artificial intelligence (AI) and facial-recognition software, via several thousand CCTV surveillance cameras scattered throughout the bustling city of Bucheon, just outside Seoul,\u201d The New American reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The system aims to monitor the movement and activities of around 800,000 citizens, an official told Reuters<\/a>. The program is designed to identify COVID-19-infected residents, who they come into contact with, and how often they put on a mask.<\/p>\n

TNA noted that the system is not yet scheduled to extend to the entire country, but it is being hailed as a means of reducing the workload of human coronavirus contact tracers.<\/p>\n

Though it isn\u2019t clear how infected residents will actually be identified \u2014 perhaps through an existing database or one the government plans to create specifically for the system \u2014 the city of Bucheon is actually funding the project, along with \u201cthe very Orwellian-sounding Ministry of Science and ICT (Information and Communications Technology),\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s even clearer is that this system isn\u2019t necessary: The country has only recorded 4,456 COVID-related deaths since the pandemic began; throughout South Korea, there have only been about 536,500 cases out of a population of some 52 million people. And here\u2019s another reality: \u201cIn a country where citizen surveillance is encouraged and supported by the majority of the population, it is not likely to receive much pushback from the people,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n

A Brookings Institute report from 2020<\/a> notes that South Korean authorities have implemented nationwide surveillance for other purposes as well, including tax fraud:<\/p>\n

Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, the Korean government collected massive amounts of transaction data for investigating tax fraud. Literally every credit card and bank transaction in Korea is recorded on government databases. During the outbreak, this information was repurposed to retroactively track where people went: not just coffee shops and restaurants, but also buses and subways (the latter two mostly paid for by cashless tools). For patient #10422, such transactions would have revealed visits to the supermarket and burger joint, allowing authorities to\u00a0quickly\u00a0quarantine and sterilize both locations.<\/em><\/p>\n

The system being set up in Bucheon has been declared legal by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, \u201cas long as it is used within the realm of the disease control and prevention law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fortunately, TNA added: \u201cSome lawmakers, however, are attempting to halt the project\u2019s roll-out, citing invasion of privacy concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of them,\u00a0Park Dae-chul, a member of the conservative People Power Party, told Reuters that \u201cthe government\u2019s plan to become a Big Brother on the pretext of COVID is a neo-totalitarian idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is absolutely wrong to monitor and control the public via CCTV using taxpayers\u2019 money and without the consent from the public,\u201d Park added.<\/p>\n

City officials say that citizens have to volunteer to take part in the surveillance system and those who choose not to do so won\u2019t be monitored. And perhaps in South Korea, government officials can be taken at their word.<\/p>\n

But we know that in America, we have a deep state government intelligence\/surveillance apparatus that doesn\u2019t care about, and is not limited by, the Constitution\u2019s privacy protections and other provisions designed to protect individual liberties. So such a system, were it to be implemented in the U.S., will definitely be abused, and mostly by Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears,\u201d George Orwell warned, noted TNA, noting further: \u201cIn a free democratic nation, this is really happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

This technology is available in America, too. We wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it\u2019s not already being tested.<\/p>\n

See more stories like this one at DeepState.news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sources include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

TheNewAmerica.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Brookings.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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