With the outbreak of COVID-19, mechanisms of mass surveillance and data extraction through platform capitalism have escalated. Tracing apps, drones, and digital platforms are just a few among the many technologies that have gained center stage in the media and in public debates across the world. The hypothesis that these might remain in place and be normalized after the end of the pandemic is not just a worry but, as Naomi Klein has recently stressed, a very likely scenario. In fact, this trend, exacerbated by the pandemic, appears in continuity with Gilles Deleuze’s idea that “what counts is no longer the barrier but the computer that tracks each person’s position” (7). However, if we consider the modes of power and control that have been (and still are) at stake to manage populations during COVID-19, is surveillance the most salient aspect to consider? How have the relationships among citizens, as potential plague spreaders, changed during the pandemic?