Orwellian surveillance hell touted as ‘future of tourism’

(SUMMIT NEWS) – A CNN report published Wednesday details how Venice, Italy has created a disturbing monolithic surveillance grid to track and trace everyone who enters and leaves the city, and claims that this could be the 'future of tourism' in a 'post-COVID world.

The article begins: "They're watching you, wherever you walk. They know exactly where you pause, when you slow down and speed up, and they count you in and out of the city. What's more, they're tracking your phone, so they can tell exactly how many people from your country or region are in which area, at which time. And they're doing it in a bid to change tourism for the better. Welcome to Venice in a post-Covid world."

The piece then explores how Venice has commandeered a huge warehouse and transformed it into a state of the art technological 'control room' to "track tourism" in the city.

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