Everything comes at a cost. As the world rushes to find solutions to the pandemic crisis, technology offers an obvious fix. But at what price? Privacy experts and free-speech advocates are already sounding alarm bells. As movement tracking, facial recognition, and mass data collection merge, even many liberal governments are jumping on the opportunity to implement surveillance measures that only months ago would have been unthinkable. Raising huge questions. What’s proportional in a pandemic? Are today’s temporary measures establishing a new normal in surveillance? And what would it mean to live in a post-privacy world?
