Big Brother: Government Planned ‘Dystopian Surveillance System’ to Fight COVID – Book

A “dystopian surveillance system” consisting of CCTV, phone, and transaction monitoring was planned by Ireland’s government in the hopes of combatting COVID, an upcoming book will claim.

Ireland’s Europhile government along with a major international consulting firm planned out what a report has called a “dystopian surveillance system” consisting of CCTV, phone, and financial transaction monitoring in the hopes of combatting the Chinese Coronavirus, an upcoming book will claim.

Described as an “Orwellian plan” by the forthcoming publication, the apparent idea of the privacy-invading system was to make sure civilians in Ireland were obeying the government’s draconian measures, which at times were considered some of the harshest in the world.

According to a report by the Irish Independent, the plan for the big data surveillance system was drawn up by multinational consultancy firm EY, and would have also monitored people’s takeout habits through banking data as well as information uploaded to social media.

“What emerged was an almost Orwellian plan, bizarrely dubbed 1 Government Centre (1GC),” the publication reports the upcoming book — which is penned by one of the newspaper’s own journalists — as saying. – READ MORE