Civil Liberties Watch

Intrusive monitoring tools adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic may further normalize the surveillance of individuals by governments and private entities.

Growing movements against police brutality raise concerns over the self-serving relationships between criminal justice agencies and post-secondary institutions.

Some governments are using the context of COVID-19 to make a range of moves that are explicitly authoritarian, exerting controls over communities that are struggling to get by.

Unless we are vigilant, some governments and corporations could use the pandemic to extend their power and influence permanently.