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“The virus weakens democracy”

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Accelerated by the pandemic, technological surveillance contaminates our democracies. Journalist Olivier Tesquet makes the alarming observation and publishes an essay.

Dn the wake of the pandemic, another virus is spreading. That of technological surveillance. It is a security epidemic against which no society seems immune: if it flourishes from China to Singapore via Israel, it has also contaminated Western democracies. Under the pretext of the health emergency, public space is gradually militarized, individuals geolocated, patients criminalized, all in a legal vagueness where several arms industries are active, happy to offer themselves a new one …

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