Mahboula Workers ‘Abandoned’ by Employer
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FREE Established 1961 Friday ISSUE NO: 18166 THULQAADA 5, 1441 AH FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2020 Convicted rapist arrested in UN, Europe, Arabs warn Liverpool on brink of 9 chalets area after resisting police 11 Israel against annexation 39 Premier League title Mahboula workers ‘abandoned’ by employer SEE PAGES 4-5 2 Friday Local Friday, June 26, 2020 PHOTO OF THE DAY Privacy under siege Local Spotlight By Muna Al-Fuzai [email protected] alking about privacy and individual nationality, age, gender and travel history. freedoms is a controversial topic Personally, I am a supporter of privacy Tamong supporters and opponents, of individuals and protecting them from and each of them has their reasons accord- harm, especially with regards to their per- ing to circumstances. But nowadays it has sonal life and security, but are we tackling become a double-edged sword. this issue from a political and human per- Supporters believe that privacy should spective or health-wise or both? Is age be protected in all cases, while those who and gender confidential information nowa- are against it believe that this is not the days? I am not a proponent of violating case when public health is threatened. I privacy, and I respect this vehemently, but I think this issue will always be debatable for wonder which data that can pose a danger various reasons, mostly political, but with when exposed publicly. KUWAIT: This picture taken on June 21, 2020, shows a partial view of the Sheikh Jaber Causeway in Kuwait City. The causeway project, which includes two paths over the Kuwait Bay, is the world’s the advent of COVID-19, it has become I understand how some people can be biggest maritime causeway project. Undertaken by Kuwait Ministry of Public Works (MPW), the con- more intense and the argument has become careless by disregarding protection guid- struction began in 2013 and was officially inaugurated in May 2019. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat more complicated and confusing. ance and deliberately mixing with others. I Amnesty International has warned that agree that in such cases the society must applications to track coronavirus patients obtain a tool such as these applications to may collect in-depth personal information, protect healthy people from possible harm claiming that the privacy and security of temporarily. thousands of people is at risk by the new I have more concerns about keeping Friends, a lasting treasure platforms. The organization is saying that track of individuals’ affairs through elec- the programs differ in their features, but tronic systems throughout the year via can generally be classified into two cate- social media, for instance. Most of us By Abdellatif Sharaa gories - decentralized applications, where today have one or more accounts in these data is kept on the device, and centralized electronic programs, for which you must applications where data is kept on a sepa- include data about yourself when regis- rate server. tering such as name, nationality, country [email protected] Meanwhile, privacy advocates tend to and age. agree that it is better to store information In such accounts you can and may keep locally on a device than send it to a sepa- a record of videos, ideas, stories or opin- es, it is the weekend already, believe glass, then gave me a stern and serious look rate server, but I wonder what kind of ions related to your life and anything else it or not, and we are expected to see and said: “do not forget your friends at all, the country open up more, so please they will be more important to you as you information should be classified as confi- you wish. You may document your travels Y my dear friends continue being careful. Keep grow older.” He continued, “regardless of how dential in the world of social media and the and it even retains your memories from wearing your masks when in closed quar- much you love your family and children, you Internet. past years and reminds you of them. I know ters, try your best to keep your distance will always need friends. Remember to go out Amnesty International reviewed soft- that it requires your permission before from your brothers and sisters, and once you with them and keep in touch.” ware from 11 countries in the world, includ- reposting, but in reality everything that is finish a job, wash your hands or keep a sani- “What a strange advice,” I thought to ing Kuwait, used in applications on the published on the Internet remains in exis- tizer handy. We must make ‘Mr Corona’ myself back then. I just joined the married phone linked to an electronic bracelet to tence for years. But I have not seen any understand that he will never ever be trusted life, I grew wiser, and thought that for sure track contact with people who may be protesters. until he goes away with anger and never my wife and the family we will build will be infected with the coronavirus in home quar- Some may argue that what is published shows his ugly face again no matter how all that is needed to give my life a meaning. antine to ensure that they do not mix with on social media is with the consent of the long he lurks around. As I said before, I will Yet, I followed my father’s advice and kept in others for a specific period of time. When persons themselves. I think this issue is never get tired of saying that it is our behav- touch with my friends, and I was keen to the home quarantine period is over, the per- more complicated and overlapping, and the ior that will keep us corona-free, and if we increase their number each year. Then as son is required to return the electronic topic of health privacy today is not spying behave as we are supposed to, coronavirus years went by, I realized that my father knew bracelet to health authorities in the country. on the personal info of individuals without will not find a home to survive, and that what he was talking about. After a life that Other countries have used similar appli- their knowledge. We are surrounded with home is a cell in the human lungs. If we do spanned over sixty years, here is what I cations, such as Austria and Switzerland, many electronics platforms that we only not heed the warnings and follow instruc- learned: Time goes by, life keeps moving on, but they are decentralized models for know very little about. We are great users tions, well, I am sorry, because then we will distances grow larger, children grow up and tracking contact via Bluetooth. Other of computers, but how many of us know realize that we brought it upon ourselves. become independent and often get separat- applications for example, use a centralized how to fix it when broken? I did not have the chance to sit next to my ed from their families although this breaks system, but information is only downloaded I believe that the issue of individual pri- father a lot as I left home early on, then one the family’s hearts, jobs come and go, people voluntarily with users’ consent or at the vacy is important and I hope that these day after getting married, I was visiting my do what they should not do, parents pass parents and found myself sitting next to my away, colleagues forget what you gave them, request of a health authority. However, organizations follow up the matter when father during a hot day. We were having a cold yet true friends remain regardless of time Amnesty said that there are still concerns the coronavirus crisis is over, and not just drink, and talking about the lives of grownups, and distance between them. Love your fami- about these applications. Personal informa- an application that has info that is likely to marriage, responsibilities and commitments. ly, care for your children, but let there be tion includes the individual’s health status, be found on any social media account. My father started to turn the ice cubes in his friends for you. Friday 3 Local Friday, June 26, 2020 Cabinet expected to ease coronavirus restrictions MPs demand approval of civil rights law for bedoons By B Izzak are some signs indicating the situation was day called for approving a draft law that caused psychological and physical illnesses improving, especially that the recovery rate grants basic civil and humanitarian rights to to a large number of bedoons, especially KUWAIT: The council of ministers was hit 80 percent. Under the second phase, over 100,000 of stateless people, locally those who are unable to renew their IDs from expected at a meeting yesterday to approve malls will reopen, curfew will be relaxed to known as ‘bedoons’. the Central Agency for Illegal Residents, easing the coronavirus restrictions and take be from 9:00 pm to 5:00 am, restaurants and The call came following reports of a which is essential for most bedoons to do the country into the second phase of the cafes will partially reopen and government young bedoon man, studying at the medical their transactions. Hayef said the coronavirus five-phase return to normal life. offices will resume with a limited capacity. college, attempting to commit suicide by tak- crisis has even complicated the misery for That move was delayed a week ago Central bank governor Mohammad Al- ing pills apparently over difficult living condi- many bedoons. because of the steep rise in the number of Hashel, who heads a government committee tions.