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What if government instituted an app, where if you didn’t regularly have your 24/7 tracking device on you with gps, gyroscope and speaker on you couldn’t enter any buildings or leave your house.

That was quite literally NYC, Ireland, and most of the “democracies” in the world the past few years.

What did you think that QR code pass was lol

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My old man purchased a Huawei smartphone from China a few years back, I took a look at it last year as a potential hand-me-down and I noticed that a "Covid health" application system had been installed into the OS itself and couldn't be removed.

I had no choice but to junk it despite the excellent hardware underneath the hood.

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