Ken Macon
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French Resistance: Only half of Paris cafés and restaurants are demanding draconian vaccine passports
Despite facing prison, restaurant owners are fighting back.
They should give us “a truncheon and a pistol” says French restaurant owner asked to enforce vaccine passports
In Macron’s France, waiters are acting as law enforcement over vaccine passports.
Italy to introduce vaccine passports for public transport
From September 1st.
Judge issues injunction against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ vaccine passport ban
DeSantis’ attempt to protect civil liberties is crushed.
Vaccine Passports likely to arrive in Australia before the end of the year
Australia is set to further its curtailing of civil liberties.
Vaccine passports are a privacy nightmare
If this catches on, the future is bleak.
Yelp moves to normalize vaccine passports
Showing which business are adding to the encroachment on civil liberties.
New York’s Mayor de Blasio: “It’s time” for vaccine passports
De Blasio is pushing the “Key to NYC.”
Facebook accused of researching ways to to use “encrypted” WhatsApp messages for advertising purposes
The report says Facebook is wanting to take advantage of more data. WhatsApp has partially disputed the claims.
Banned Chinese surveillance tech is being used by US authorities to track criminals in realtime
The system could be used to find anyone anywhere.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo asks private businesses to use vaccine passports
“Run a vaccine-only admission.”