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A surveillance pandemic? A community listening session on emergent post-COVID trends, from contact tracking to special powers

[image] This topic is now closed. Find the writeup and subsequent discussion here. Several of the smartest people we know in the Net activism space are worried. SARS-CoV-2 will be defeated, at some point; but it might leave behind new limitations to civil liberties and privacy. We have had two decades of consumer surveillance; and at least one decade of the inter-governmental panopticon we learned about through Edward Snowden’s revelations. The right to privacy online has been tenuous at best…