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I have this paranoid feeling that officials will now use this pandemic as a shield to attack on privacy on all fronts. Just right now there are few more posts on HN about the same (one more about EU, and another about Toronto). Fight against pandemic now can be used as an excuse to implement whatever measures they could not get through in normal times. And normalize it and later forget to stop doing it.

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This is exactly what is going to happen.

In our country they implemented a web page, where you can snitch on people who you suspect to be infected.

So as it turns out, it seems that if you put enough pressure (fictional or real) on a group of people, they will submit themselves to draconian rule for the benefit of the collective and at the same time feel good about themselves because they work for the common good. Sound familiar??

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