Swedish Tech Company Epicenter is making headlines again for using its contactless payment technology, this time to display vaccine status. The CEO of Epicenter say's it used in case your phone battery dies and will make life even more convenient. Dio and Gene have discussed this company before in the spectrum of technology enthusiasm episode. We analyze the technology and rant about how this opens pandoras jar so to say, as well as the type of people accepting this and the type of world, we are creating with these privacy invasive technologies. The next WD episode will be about "Censorship for thee but not for me"

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