Surveillance stateCOVID Is Ushering in a Surveillance State That May Never Be Dismantled

Published 14 May 2020

Is the “new normal” to be a surveillance society, with tracing apps and facial recognition health passports? Philip Johnston writes in The Telegraph that the British government insists not; but if we are hit by a second wave of COVID-19, the temptation to extend the monitoring will be hard to resist.