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Tom Westgarth is a graduate student and writer at Warwick University.
As governments collect vast amounts of data on their citizens, decision-making is increasingly outsourced to algorithm – in the hope that behaviour can be modified and sites of democratic resistance diminished.
‘Smart cities’ technologies have grown in popularity during the coronavirus crisis, and are now being touted as tools of economic recovery – but they will also deepen the power of surveillance over our lives.