Nick Corbishley is a journalist with a global perspective who specializes in breaking news, finance, and politics.
Formerly a senior contributing editor at the San Francisco–based economics and finance news site Wolf Street, he is currently a regular contributor to the US financial news and analysis blog Naked Capitalism, where he writes about financial, economic, and political developments in Europe and Latin America.
There is another reason why vaccine passport systems are a threat to our personal liberties, privacy, and digital rights: that the scale and scope of their application will grow over time.
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