COVID Is ‘Laying the Foundation for the Future Surveillance State’
By Patrick W. Dunne
Kian Vesteinsson is a research analyst for technology and democracy at Freedom House, a research institute in Washington.
He also greatly contributes to the annual “Freedom on the Net” report produced by the nonprofit, which was established in 1941.
The report, released in October, analyzes how countries worldwide handle internet freedom.
“The public-health crisis has created an opening for the digitization, collection and analysis of people’s most intimate data without adequate protections against abuses,” reads an excerpt from the 2020 report.
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