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

Not "close to" - exactly where we are. Coming to a restuarant, movie theater, shopping mall near you: "Papers please" - https://twitter.com/cynclagar/status/1475579567637213185