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India: Karnataka app tracks foreign travellers and coronavirus-positive individuals 

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Cy4Gate offers governments mass surveillance 

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NSO Group offers governments tracking software 

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WHO launches distributed ledger-based MiPasa platform to facilitate information sharing

Coronavirus and Data Exploitation
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Covid-19 response: Corporate Exploitation

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We must protect people in vulnerable situations during lockdown or quarantine

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EU: Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Orange and 5 other telcos to help EU track cov-19 progression

migrants at the border
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The EU needs to provide assistance to migrants affected by Covid-19. But their latest proposal does nothing of the kind.

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Civil Society Sound Alarm Over Unprecedented Global Wave of Surveillance in Fight Against COVID-19

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South Africa: Telecommunications companies agree to provide location data

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India: International arrivals to Mumbai to be tracked via mobile phones

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Bulgaria: Police to access to citizens' telephone and Internet data

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Armenian Government proposes using cell phone data to track contacts of COVID-19 patients

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Montenegro publishes personal data of persons in isolation

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Paraguayan police post videos of punishing people for breaking quarantine

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South Korean public tracking leads to personal harassment

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UK's NHS collaborates with Palantir to track health service assets

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UK's Derbyshire police enforce lockdown via drones

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United states: Heat map tracks smartphones across the US

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Bosnia publishes quarantine breakers' names and hometowns

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EU asks telecoms giants to share mobile data to predict virus spread

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Argentina mandates app installation for quarantine breakers

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Argentina requires app monitoring during incoming travellers' quarantine

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Germany copies Singapore's TraceTogether app for contact tracing

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Indonesian TraceTogether app uses location data for contact tracing

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Israeli opt-in "The Shield" app uses GPS and SSIDs for contact tracing

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Mexico: Screening web form amasses personal data

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Russia trials biometric payments

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Russia: Moscow uses facial recognition to enforce quarantine

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South Korea apps trace contacts and enforce quarantine