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US department of Homeland Security (DHS) buys cellphone location data from private companies

Thermographic camera display at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
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Infrared temperature screening

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Australia bars police from accessing contact tracing app metadata

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Turkey prepares comprehensive quarantine surveillance

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Taiwan operates comprehensive quarantine surveillance

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Switzerland launches DP-3T contact tracing app

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Belgium/Netherlands: Developer of prototype contact tracer app leaks personal data

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Israel: Numerous agencies track citizens in health emergency

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Canada: Location data analysis shows demographics of movement patterns

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Germany pivots to decentralised contact tracing

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South Africa: Data-sharing and misinformation emergency laws violate constitution

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Mexican telcos grant government access to cell phone antennas

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North Macedonia launches Bluetooth-based contact tracing app

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India launches COVID-19 tracker app

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Australia releases contact tracing apps

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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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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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Egyptian politician proposes app identifying COVID-19 patients

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Cambodia grants leader extreme power

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Australia: Vodafone gives government location data

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Apple and Google partner to create interoperable platform for contact tracing

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South Africa: Government revises phone tracking plans 

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US: Adtech supplies CDC and local governments with geolocation data

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Israel copies Taiwanese system for quarantine enforcement 

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South Korea: SK Telecom provides system for analysing mobile geolocation data in real time

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South Africa collates location data to track and trace 

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Serbian government monitors telephones to enforce travellers' quarantine