COVID-19 and the Acceleration of State Surveillance

COVID-19 and the Acceleration of State Surveillance – Analysis

Muhammad Faizal Abdul Rahman

Eurasia Review

19 May 2020

This article first appeared as an RSIS Commentary, view the original commentary in the source above.

In the effort to persuade people to comply with counter-pandemic measures, fear of state punishment has perhaps played a greater role than fear of the loss of privacy and civil liberties. But people are also fearful of sacrificing privacy and civil liberties as a result of tech-enabled mass surveillance expanding state power, wrote Muhammad Faizal Abdul Rahman, a Research Fellow at RSIS, in a commentary. He shares some strategic considerations when it comes to using surveillance tools.

Muhammad Faizal Abdul Rahman is a Research Fellow with the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), a unit of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore.

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Last updated on 20/05/2020