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Accenture and IBM and all the other bottom tier software configuration consultancies must be foaming at the mouth at all the opportunities to implement tracking of increasingly confusing sets of rules for who is allowed to go into the office. The main thing (other than violate peoples rights) that these things accomplish is create work for legacy enterprise software companies.

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Can we store it in a mainframe? Asking for a friend

Where there is a will, There is a government contractor lurking in the shadows ready to pounce.

Perhaps Germany could reuse some of the IBM technology they bought 88 years ago for a similar purpose.

QR codes on the arms this go around?

Its obviously of a different magnitude, but it's interesting (scary) to see the parallel that once a state wants to do something, regardless of the morality, companies line up with proposals on how to do it, without any thought for if they should be helping repress people or violate their rights. I hope when we wake up from our collective delusion the companies that are enabling this will be held accountable, I also know there is no chance of that

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