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<b><font size="+1">As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal
Privacy Plummets</font></b><br>
<i>Tracking entire populations to combat the pandemic now could open
the doors to more invasive forms of government snooping later.</i><br>
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By Natasha Singer and Choe Sang-Hun<br>
The New York Times<br>
Published March 23, 2020<br>
Updated March 24, 2020<br>
<blockquote>In January, South Korea began posting detailed location
histories about people who tested positive for the coronavirus,
leading to public blaming and shaming.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/technology/coronavirus-surveillance-tracking-privacy.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/technology/coronavirus-surveillance-tracking-privacy.html</a><br>
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<blockquote><i>In South Korea, government agencies are harnessing
surveillance-camera footage, smartphone location data and credit
card purchase records to help trace the recent movements of
coronavirus patients and establish virus transmission chains.</i><i><br>
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</i><i>In Lombardy, Italy, the authorities are analyzing location
data transmitted by citizens’ mobile phones to determine how
many people are obeying a government lockdown order and the
typical distances they move every day. About 40 percent are
moving around “too much,” an official recently said.</i><i><br>
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</i><i>In Israel, the country’s internal security agency is poised
to start using a cache of mobile phone location data —
originally intended for counterterrorism operations — to try to
pinpoint citizens who may have been exposed to the virus.</i><i><br>
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<div class="moz-signature">--<font color="#b3b3b3"><i><br>
Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.<br>
Principal Technologist &<br>
</i><i>Distinguished Senior Research Scholar</i><i><br>
</i><i>Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)</i><i><br>
</i><i>University of Hawai'i</i></font></div>
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