To protect our privacy rights, COVID-19 surveillance measures need a squeaky wheel

If we want to protect ourselves in the long-run from government overreach, we need the measures they implement in the short term to be annoying. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, they say. So let's make sure that the policy we get squeaks really loudly.

In a bid to enforce COVID-19 quarantines and isolation measures, governments around the world are turning to increasingly intrusive surveillance measures, writes Adam Gordon. Photograph courtesy Pixabay

Opinion

BY ADAM GORDON

June 15, 2020

OTTAWA—In a bid to enforce COVID-19 quarantines and isolation measures, governments around the world are turning to increasingly intrusive surveillance measures. These include, most notably, laws that allow them to track people through their phone data, ...

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