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Policy Lessons from Our Covid Experience
New England Journal of Medicine DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2023204
As of August 24, 2020, nearly 5.7 million cases of Covid-19 had been reported in the United States, with more than 176,000 deaths. Although there is debate about the accuracy of these specific numbers — many people with mild symptoms are never tested for Covid, for example, and especially early in the epidemic, the difference between dying from Covid and dying with Covid may not have been accurately captured — the increase in excess mortality rates reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is consistent with a significant loss of life associated with the disease.

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Talk of Banning TikTok Sparks Calls For A More Open Internet in China
“Big data will usually monitor your clipboard, or some of the more important calls,” Jin said. “Taobao will have all of her private information. This definitely happens, on WeChat, too.” “Any app approved by the Chinese Communist Party can be instructed by it to engage in surveillance and spying activities to collect information of all kinds,” he said. “I have no doubt about that.”

Jailed WeChat User Says Chinese Police Monitor Overseas Accounts Too
In May 2020, researchers at CitizenLab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, warned that anyone using WeChat, even if they have lived their whole lives outside China, is “subject to pervasive content surveillance that was previously thought to be exclusively reserved for China-registered accounts.”

The Age of Cyber Sovereignty? For years, China has promoted the concept of “cyber sovereignty.”

Dutch Government Formally Accepts Complaints From Uyghur Exiles Over Chinese Intimidation

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