Cellphone Tracking

• Australia urges use of coronavirus-tracking phone app, but says it’s not mandatory

  Government Services Minister Stuart Robert said there would there will be no surveillance involved with the app, which is to be ready within weeks.

  Health

  Apr 18, 2020
  
• Coronavirus: Could Alberta use smartphone apps to track patients, enforce quarantine?

  After Alberta's premier brought up the possibility of using smartphone apps to enforce quarantine orders, a former privacy commissioner and developer weigh in on balancing privacy and public health.

  Canada

  Apr 8, 2020
  
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• Taiwan used cellphone tracking, big data to contain spread of COVID-19 — should Canada do the same?

  In the early days of the outbreak, "Taiwan leveraged its national health insurance database and integrated it with its immigration and customs database to begin the creation of big data for analytics;"

  Mar 6, 2020