"In recent years, firms like #Google and #Facebook have used the Global South as a test bed for new and unregulated forms of data collection. Faced with #coronavirus, the same mechanisms are being rolled out across the world — with for-profit data collection becoming increasingly central to states’ management of their #welfare systems."

#Tech Giants Are Using This Crisis to Colonize the Welfare System
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/tech-giants-coronavirus-pandemic-welfare-surveillance

#surveillance #privacy #healthcare #bigtech #covid19