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South Korea apps trace contacts and enforce quarantine

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Slovakian law grants Public Health Office access to mobile location data

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Canada: Mayor makes, then withdraws, claim that Toronto is gathering cellphone data

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Brazil: Rio authorities use telecoms geolocation data to enforce quarantine

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Understanding the responses to Covid-19

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Extraordinary powers need extraordinary protections

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Covid-19 response: Quarantine Enforcement

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Covid-19 response: apps and smartphones

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Covid-19 response: telecommunications tracking

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Bluetooth tracking and COVID-19: A tech primer

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Norwegian Institute of Public health working on an app to store location data for 30 days

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Israeli Supreme Court blocks use of cellphone surveillance for COVID-19 monitoring

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Peru test-checker website fails basic security

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Romania derogates from ECHR obligations

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UK councils and Greater Manchester police seek suspension of FOI request obligations

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Peru: Comprehensive curfew enforced by police and armed forces

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Romania announces state of emergency

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Singapore's quarantine enforcement strips offender of residency rights

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UK: Detention Action launches legal action to compel release of immigration detainees

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US: Legal uncertainty surrounds CDC's claimed power to quarantine

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Vietnam: Aggressive measures so far contain virus  

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US DoJ requests indefinite detention without trial

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Taiwan integrates national heath and immigration and customs databases to control virus spread

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Singapore contact tracing app uses phone-to-phone Bluetooth connections

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Russia orders system to analyse smartphone geolocation data for contact tracing and notification

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Peru requires authorisation for all local travel

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Peru symptom-checker collects personal information

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Pakistani government uses unclear criteria to direct SMS alerts

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Netherlands locks down until April 6

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Myanmar launches public site to counter hoaxes and misinformation