Surveillance State Thrives During COVID-19 Pandemic
Posted By: J.D. Tuccile via Reason April 12, 2020
Technocracy News & Trends may have been one of the first to point out the massive rise of surveillance because of the coronavirus, but many other journalists and outlets are now reporting the exact same observation. ⃠TN Editor
From cellphone tracking to drone eyes in the sky, perused health records, and GPS ankle bracelets, an epidemic of surveillance-state measures is spreading across the world. It’s all done in the name of battling the spread of COVID-19, of course, since every crisis is used to justify incursions into our liberty. But long after the virus has done its worst and moved on, we’re likely to be stuck with these invasions of our privacy—unless we push back, hard.
The rationales for surveillance are easy to understand, within certain limits. Public health authorities battling the pandemic want to know who is spreading the virus, which people they may have infected, and the movements of those potentially carrying the bug.
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