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Google launches encryption for lower-powered phones

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What types of data can law enforcement extract from my phone?

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Argentina: Grandata creates heat map to display quarantine compliance in Argentina

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Iceland launches voluntary app for contact tracing

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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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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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South Korean public tracking leads to personal harassment

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United states: Heat map tracks smartphones across the US

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Critical Bluetooth Vulnerability in Android (CVE-2020-0022) – BlueFrag

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Key Negotiation of Bluetooth attack

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Bluetooth tracking and COVID-19: A tech primer

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Norwegian Institute of Public health working on an app to store location data for 30 days

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Singapore contact tracing app uses phone-to-phone Bluetooth connections

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Pakistani government uses unclear criteria to direct SMS alerts

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Argentina health app enables direct government-citizen information exchange

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Google: Researchers prototype location data-based notification apps

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Poland: App helps police monitor home quarantine

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Thailand: SIM card and app to track travellers

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South Korea: App monitors and enforces patient lockdown

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Russia: Authorities' initial containment efforts focus on Chinese citizens

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Colombia: Coronapp fails at public information purpose

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Austria: Telco A1 gives government location data to test movement restrictions

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Argentina: CoTrack app crowdsources geolocation tracking

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Israel: Security service may use patients' smartphone data for contact tracing

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Italy: Telcos turn over anonymised location data to aid contact tracing

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China: Alipay Health Code app controls movement in China