[liberationtech] COVID-19 (Update) U.S. Cellphone tracking

[Robert Mathews (OSIA)]

*Government Tracking How People Move Around in Coronavirus Pandemic*
*The Wall Street Journal* (via MSN, for those that do not have a WSJ
subscription)
Byron Tau
28 March 2020
5 hrs ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/government-tracking-how-people-move-around-in-coronavirus-pandemic/ar-BB11PDb4?ocid=se2

WASHINGTON—Government officials across the U.S. are using location data
from millions of cellphones in a bid to better understand the movements
of Americans during the coronavirus pandemic and how they may be
affecting the spread of the disease.

The federal government, through the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, and state and local governments have started to receive
analyses about the presence and movement of people in certain areas of
geographic interest drawn from cellphone data, people familiar with the
matter said. The data comes from the mobile advertising industry rather
than cellphone carriers.

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/Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.
Principal Technologist &
//Distinguished Senior Research Scholar//
//Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)//
//University of Hawai'i/
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