The new coronavirus has changed the world. Work, travel, leisure, shopping and education will be different from what we assumed was normal just a couple of months ago. Face-to-face encounters will be severely curtailed as the world grapples with a cure and vaccine for Covid-19 as well as preventing the possibility of another viral pandemic. We should get ready for enhanced, more aggressive and intrusive surveillance by state authorities. They are using location data, credit card information and video camera footage to track Covid-19 in the population.

Source: The Star April 07, 2020 12:56 UTC