Covid-19 has succeeded in exposing both the hypocrisy and the tools available to governments and private parties in scrutinizing our every move. Various forms of surveillance were scavenging on our privacy for decades under the lull of supposedly strong privacy laws in Europe. In 2018 we got the GDPR as a blanket for our online privacy, but two years in it proves to be a distraction, if not a body bag, for the decaying corpse of what was once individual privacy. If I have to choose the point of no return, it was probably the data retention regulations, originally introduced…
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