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US: Connecticut town plans quarantine enforcement via fever-detecting drones

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UK: Police harass journalist filming police harassment: 

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Venezuela: Government ramps up quarantine enforcement

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Panama adopts gender-based quarantine laws

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UK: Private companies data-mine NHS databases to build predictive computer models

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Telco data and Covid-19: A primer

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Zoom is not the worst, just getting the attention software deserves

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…it protects our freedom of thought

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How one organisation is promoting misleading health information globally

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There's an app for that: Coronavirus apps

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Quarantine surveillance in Taiwan means your phone must be on

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How opposition groups are using misinformation to delay people from accessing safe abortion care

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How misleading health information can spread from online discussions to policy and legislative debates

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Reproductive rights and privacy in India

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An open letter to Margaret Atwood about a future Covid-19 dystopia

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A documentation of data exploitation in sexual and reproductive rights

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US: West Virginia Researchers test Oura Rings to predict COVID-19 infection

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US: Kansas and other states track lockdown compliance via Unacast analytics

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Russia: Moscow plans to use smartphone geolocation to track foreign visitors

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Peru orders gender-based quarantine schedule

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Pakistan: Patient data held by Balochistan health authorities leaks to social media

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Norwegian contact tracing app blames Apple design for centralised GPS location database

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Kenya tracks mobile phones for quarantine enforcement

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Kazakhstan uses electronic surveillance to enforce quarantine

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Guatemalan health information app collects personal data

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German health project uses smartwatches and fitness wristbands for symptom spotting

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Egyptian politician proposes app identifying COVID-19 patients

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China: Guangzhou installs temperature and identity-checking tablet on buses

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Cambodia grants leader extreme power

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Bangladeshi start-up claims facial recognition system works for mask-wearers