Week-ending 22 May 2020
Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch: ‘While protecting human life and public health is a paramount concern during the pandemic, Moscow’s social monitoring app could end up discouraging people from seeking out testing or health care, putting them and others at greater risk. The app is intrusive, violates privacy and other rights, and should be dropped.’
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Russia: Intrusive Tracking App Wrongly Fines Muscovites
Moscow authorities have wrongly fined hundreds, if not thousands, of people for allegedly breaching self-quarantine based on dubious interpretations of behavior by a “social monitoring” tracking app, Human Rights Watch said today. The app, designed to track people with Covid-19 and symptoms of other respiratory diseases, unjustifiably invades users’ privacy, is mired in flaws and technical glitches, and should immediately be discontinued. Human Rights Watch, 21 May 2020
