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South Africa: Telecommunications companies agree to provide location data

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India: International arrivals to Mumbai to be tracked via mobile phones

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Bulgaria: Police to access to citizens' telephone and Internet data

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Armenian Government proposes using cell phone data to track contacts of COVID-19 patients

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South Korean public tracking leads to personal harassment

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United states: Heat map tracks smartphones across the US

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EU asks telecoms giants to share mobile data to predict virus spread

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Argentina mandates app installation for quarantine breakers

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Argentina requires app monitoring during incoming travellers' quarantine

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Germany copies Singapore's TraceTogether app for contact tracing

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Indonesian TraceTogether app uses location data for contact tracing

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Israeli opt-in "The Shield" app uses GPS and SSIDs for contact tracing

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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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Estonia studies mobile geolocation data to analyse movements

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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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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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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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Pakistani government uses unclear criteria to direct SMS alerts

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Hong Kong: Electronic monitoring bracelets enforce quarantine but pose risks to protesters

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Hong Kong deploys police contact tracing computer system

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MIT Media Lab prototypes location-based notification app

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Facebook analyses location data to show public behaviour change

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WHO recommends using smartphone-based electronic quarantine monitoring

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Switzerland: Swisscom to inform federal authorities of gatherings