Smartphone Tracking
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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.CanadaApr 8, 2020
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U.S. adopts digital-era privacy rules to regulate how phone companies track devicesThe justices’ 5-4 decision marks a big change in how police may obtain information that phone companies collect from the ubiquitous cellphone towers that allow people to make and receive calls, and transmit data.ConsumerJun 23, 2018
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200 million people across U.S. and Canada had real-time location exposedLocationSmart, which collects location data from millions of cellphones across North America, reportedly revealed the real-time location of over 200 million people due to a website bug.CanadaMay 19, 2018
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