The personal data that WhatsApp collects is also available to Facebook.

European countries want a global tax system on digital services, but the conman's men are dead set against it.

One state in Australia is ordering immediate collection of identity data for everyone that stays in a hotel.

The stated purpose, contact tracing for Covid-19, is a legitimate one. But this surveillance goes far beyond what the purpose requires, and that makes it an injustice.

Sad to say, this unjust level of surveillance has existed for decades in many countries. In those countries that gives me one additional reason to try to avoid hotels.

*Melbourne lockdown key to getting Covid-19 contact tracing to manageable level, expert says.*

The US is far beyond the level at which contact tracing is feasible. The only way to reach that level is with firm and strong measures to keep people apart.

*Immunity to Covid-19 could be lost in months, UK study suggests.*

More precisely, the study finds that antibodies to Covid-19 tend to disappear after some months. Other kinds of immune response may last longer. We do not know whether people will become vulnerable to reinfection 3, 6 or 12 months after recovering from Covid-19.

This is additional reason why we should try hard to cut off transmission and quickly — the approach used by East Asian countries rather than the approach of the numskull.