Does Big Brother bother you?
What will people be prepared to give up to ensure their safety during a pandemic?
In the republic of Georgia, many of the police stations have glass walls.The theory was that if the people could watch the police, the police would be honest. And so it was. Corruption, once endemic in the former Soviet satellite state, was stomped out of the dark corners where it once lurked.Georgia, it emerged this week, has also done much better at containing the coronavirus outbreak than many other countries. On Tuesday, the country had 195 confirmed cases, two deaths and 39 recoveries.One wonders what Georgians would have felt about the possible threat to their privacy from the government potentially tracking and tracing them on their cellphones, as SA is doing.Former Constitutional Court judge Kate O’Regan has been appointed the designated judge to ensure that people’s privacy is protected as the state works with cellphone network operators to track and trace those who may have been exposed to the coronavirus."These are uncharted waters," O’Regan said in a radio interview thi...
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