We aren’t just individuals but also the herd and our anonymous private data is a public resource What do you call surveillance when it is used for a good cause?
Surveillance. But then you don’t like that word, so it is now called “tracking", or even better, “tracing". In time, these words too will acquire infamy, just like how the various innocuous, and even celebratory, words for Dalits are condemned in time.
A few days ago, the Indian government released a tracking app called Aarogya Setu that will help you identify how far you are from a person who has acquired covid.
You diagnose yourself by truthfully answering some easy questions and let the app spot your live location. One strand of response was predictable the moment the app