Yesterday I finished reading "Attack Surface" by Corey Doctorow, a dramatization of some aspects of surveillance written just prior to the pandemic.

Top headline of my printed newspaper today: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-public-health-agency-admits-it-tracked-33-million-mobile-devices-during-lockdown

Here in BC Canada, a "vaccine passport" and photo ID are required for dining in restaurants and some other functions. The "passports" are typically scanned by an online mobile app; if they so choose, authorities can log those data.

This is disturbingly close to "Papers, please". The government isn't even using police for that function, they're delegating it to fellow citizens. There was a former Eastern Bloc nation that worked that way.

As the NP article points out, we're likely to find other unauthorized surveillance applied in the name of the pandemic.

Citizens need to be sensitive to these initiatives and push back where they overreach.