Coronavirus: This way they can monitor us via mobile phone without us realizing it

US officials are using them location information from mobile ads to study its spread coronavirus.

Σthe game has even entered the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), who uses the same data to see citizens' compliance with the stay at home.

As "Wall Street Journal"Sensitive mobile geolocation data come from the mobile advertising industry and not from the mobile providers themselves.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, together with the federal and regional governments, receives such information from cell phones of the world, especially in areas of "geographical interest", reveals theWall Street Journal».

The goal is to create a map with geoinformation from more than 500 American cities, to determine the degree of compliance of citizens with the policy of social exclusion.

According to the newspaper, the new way of monitoring has recently borne fruit. Investigators discovered a large number of devices in a New York park and informed local authorities.

Although the data is anonymous, as claimed by government agencies, this type of surveillance raises a myriad of questions about personal data and its breach.

America is not the only country doing this, as is the case in European Union member states. According to Reuters, in Italy, Germany and Austria mobile providers shared such data with health authorities. Something that it may have happened elsewhere in Europe, observe meaningfully the "New York Times».

Even worse, in South Korea they made live maps with such data with the movements of coronavirus patients.

The "The Washington PostRevealed on March 17 that the US government is "in talks" with Facebook, Google and other tech giants over the use of sensitive personal data by mobile devices...

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