Best of the financial columnists
May 21, 2021
3 minutes
Big Brother loves Big Tech
Lizzie O’Shea
Nikkei Asia
From the start of the pandemic, as borders closed, governments started to experiment with technological solutions to control the movement of people, track their contacts and enforce social-distancing rules, says Lizzie O’Shea. Vaccine passports, for which airlines are agitating, are the “logical next step”. We should be wary. Whatever politicians say, it is unlikely that any initiative will be temporary and indeed there are “obvious reasons for those in power to treat these changes as
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