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  1. Oct 2021
    1. To those of you in Queen Village or other well-off Philly neighborhoods who might be doubting these realities, I promise you: there are few better ways to stay on your toes in Philadelphia, with its record-breaking homicide rate and omnipresent specter of violent crime.

      It's interesting how O'Callaghan is specifically calling out people from more well-off neighborhoods. He's isolating them but for the reason that they won't understand the importance of these apps. It's to prove his point that Citizen/Nextdoor are important for people in higher crime neighborhoods.

    1. Consider the case in July 2005 at the Stockwell subway station in London. The London Metropolitan police shot Jean Charles de Menezes seven times in the head with hollow-point bullets, rendering his body “unrecognizable.”

      In the article, authors Gans and Mann uses Logos with the case 2005 case of Jean Charles de Menezes and uses that real story to show how in the hands of the surveillant, video proof can tarnished. Surveillance can be a useful tool but, "the one-sided curation of the evidence undermines their integrity." The quote is able to capture the tone, it captures the danger the authors are trying to show.

    1. By signing up for BeAware Bahrain, users were automatically enrolled into Are You At Home?, which is produced by state-controlled television channel Bahrain TV. (BBC now reports you can opt out of the show if you don’t want to run the risk of being called.)

      Statt appeals to the audience's emotions using pathos, it is to strike surprise/shock to the audience by hearing that people's privacy have been breached and are at "risk" of being on tv without their consent. Statt uses this to show the audience issues that are coming from these contact trace apps. The quote, "The scattershot approach has raised concerns about the long-term effects this kind of software could have for human rights and privacy protections" best shows the overall tone. It shows a sense of worry concerning these new tracing apps