COVID-19 and Mass-Surveillance: Why South Korea’s approach is also anathema to civil liberties

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Big Brother can do wonders during a pandemic, but the granularity of what it gleans is surpassed by the infringement on privacy that it can make. Contact-tracing via Orwellian Surveillance? Afterall, since the Edward Snowden revelations, copious amounts of literature exist on the subject of NSA/GCHQ worldwide surveillance practices and so what could possibly be abstract in the South Koreans doing it at home? How about the extent to which you’re perspiring in a sensitive spot and thereby calculating your potential for making crowd trouble? The metastasis of Coronavirus 2019 is a transient problem, but to lose our personal privacy would be a permanent one.