The Dangers of Expansive Public Health Surveillance

A review of David Lyon, “Pandemic Surveillance” (polity, 2022).

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For much of the general public, the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic, although exceptional and a cataclysmic loss of human life, represented an event that would eventually end. The measures taken during the pandemic, such as mask-wearing and proof of vaccination, have largely ended. But what of surveillance and the capitalistic engine that keeps it running? David Lyon, in his excellent new book, “Pandemic Surveill

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