India Today's study of the global techniques to enforce quarantines and lockdowns revealed that many of those nations have used the smartphone as a tool to monitor people's movements.

India Today
Date: March 29, 2020
By: Ankit Kumar 

As tens of thousands of migrant workers defied the world's largest lockdown in the country, an India Today analysis has found how a number of other nations have turned to technology to enforce restrictions in addition to physical measures to keep their populations safe from the Covid-19 pandemic.

In the United Kingdom, one of the most advanced democracies sensitive about privacy issues, its Information Commissioner's Office has recently approved the use of phone data to monitor people's behaviour as part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Singapore, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Israel and several other countries have already mounted tech-based surveillance measures.

India Today's study of the global techniques to enforce quarantines and lockdowns revealed that many of those nations have used the smartphone as a tool to monitor people's movements.
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