Can we fight COVID-19 without resorting to mass surveillance?
Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Florimond Houssiau · 2020
Governments across the world are doing everything they can to fight the COVID-19 virus. Used correctly, data collected through mobile phones could help monitor the effectiveness of lockdown measures and track contacts of people who have been tested positive. We've had many people reaching out to ask if the data could be collected and used effectively without enabling mass surveillance. We thought we'd share our response