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

[Courtney Radsch]

Here's my oped urging safeguards and restrictions be put in place now as
these technologies are being rolled out without due consideration for the
long-term protection of human rights and civil liberties: Why we need
restrictions on coronavirus surveillance
<https://news.trust.org/item/20200328130228-rzdk2/>
-- 
*Dr. Courtney C. Radsch *
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Author of
*Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and
Political Change
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On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 2:38 PM Robert Mathews (OSIA) <mathews at hawaii.edu>
wrote:

>
> *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.
>
> [ .... ]
> --
>
>
> *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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