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The Coronavirus is Creating a Surveillance State around the globe. With governments like China employing facial recognition technology and tracking their citizens, Western Democracies are looking at these practices and their effectiveness at slowing the spread of the virus with envy. The novel coronavirus pandemic is causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, wreaking economic devastation, locking down much of the world, and upending communities globally. But going forward, one of the viruses most significant legacies arguably won’t be its death toll or its effects on daily life but the way that the pandemic strengthens another major global disruption from the last few years—the rise and spread of digital surveillance.
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The Coronavirus is Creating a Surveillance State around the globe. With governments like China employing facial recognition technology and tracking their citizens, Western Democracies are looking at these practices and their effectiveness at slowing the spread of the virus with envy. The novel coronavirus pandemic is causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, wreaking economic devastation, locking down much of the world, and upending communities globally. But going forward, one of the viruses most significant legacies arguably won’t be its death toll or its effects on daily life but the way that the pandemic strengthens another major global disruption from the last few years—the rise and spread of digital surveillance.
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