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Belgium: Telecoms location data to be provided to third-party analytics company

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UK researchers develop infection tracking app

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Russian centre uses AI and cameras to curb misinformation and monitor quarantines

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Israeli security agency granted access to geolocation data collected for anti-terrorism

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Ecuador tracks mobile phones to enforce quarantine

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China: Technology giants offer their country technical help

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Belgium considers health code app to control movement

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Australia uses criminal investigation system to track roving infected couple

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UK: O2 shares aggregated location data with government to test compliance with distancing guidelines

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UK: BT / EE discusses sharing location and usage data with government to help monitor public compliance

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Thailand: SIM card and app to track travellers

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South Korea: App monitors and enforces patient lockdown

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South Korea: Government advice system exposes citizens' private lives

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Russia: Authorities' initial containment efforts focus on Chinese citizens

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Germany: Deutsche Telekom gives user location data to Robert-Koch Institute

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Austria: Telco A1 gives government location data to test movement restrictions

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Israel: Security service may use patients' smartphone data for contact tracing

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China: Alipay Health Code app controls movement in China

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TomTom sells location data to police

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NSA SKYNET may have killed thousands of innocent people

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Mobile Phone Extraction: How the police can secretly download everything on your mobile phone

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Argentina: Urbetrack pitches quarantine enforcement geofencing app

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Pan-European project seeks to create standards for app-based contact tracing

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Supercom repurposes electronic surveillance system for quarantine

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Argentina proposes tracking to ensure quarantine compliance

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Online surveillance becomes a priority for the Human Rights Council, as Pakistan joins the wrong side of the debate

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New surveillance industry database reveals small-town US police departments browsing surveillance tech alongside Libyan and Egyptian intelligence agencies

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Flaws in geolocation data collection jeopardise criminal proceedings in Denmark

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Africa: SIM Card Registration Only Increases Monitoring and Exclusion

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Creativity Software declare themselves “proud” to supply surveillance technology to Iran in unrepentant response to Privacy International’s letter