r/worldnews - The coronavirus pandemic has led to an unprecedented global surge in digital surveillance, researchers and privacy advocates around the world have said, with billions of people facing enhanced monitoring that may prove difficult to roll back.

And going by history, it won't roll back, "just in case" ya know? Considering how many countries went simultaneously way fascist in a hurry, I suspect this may have been part of the plan... The American Republicans have been pushing massively over-reaching state surveillance since 9/11.

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