UK COVID Inquiry Calls for Deployment of Mass Surveillance System To Prepare for Future “Emergencies”

Of all the things UK authorities may have learned from the (authoritarian) way they handled the Covid pandemic - it's disheartening to see that making things even worse, should another similar phenomenon occur, is the "lesson learned."

A Covid Inquiry report appears to serve the purpose of advocating for more efficient and therefore widespread mass digital and data surveillance.

The report, resulting from a public inquiry, suggests that future events of the scale Covid - health, or otherwise - will, in the UK, require some sort of public debate - but more importantly, they will require "large scale (surveillance) digital platforms to be established."

The purpose of mentioning a "public debate" here would be to rubber-stamp such future activity ahead of time, the results of Baroness Heather Hallett's inquiry suggest.

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