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Last year’s rapid spread and development of the so-called COVID-19 has taken most governments and decision makers by surprise. Most governments under time pressure and facing considerable uncertainty locked down most of the western populations in a dangerous precedent for “fundamental rights and freedoms” of EU citizens. This together with the development of digital technologies led to “governments expanding their location-surveillance capacities in step with the global creep toward authoritarianism” (COVID-19 isn’t the only threat to privacy in Foreign Affairs (2020)). There is thus a real danger of a new digital authoritarianism (Digital Dictators (Foreign Affairs (2020)), How Artificial Intelligence Will Reshape the Global Order (Foreign Affairs (2018)).
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