Digital Surveillance During the Pandemic

The National Health Code tracked your location across the country in order to give you a color coded access to various public spheres and elsewhere. Some commentators have said that this is the kind of digital infrastructure that once brought in, we very hard to roll back. It would become a really total and encompassing part of surveillance in China. And certainly for the last few years of COVID, it has been used many times on foreign journalists as an excuse to inspect what you're doing.