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
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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