The two-year fight against COVID-19 has turned technology into a weapon of choice to defeat the virus, but experts now worry that tech will outlive the pandemic and normalize mass surveillance.
From contact-tracing apps to facial recognition, technology has become part of the arsenal used to protect public health.
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