A senior State official, speaking to the Sunday Nation on condition of anonymity, said Sunday that mobile phone tracking starts immediately one is identified as a potential coronavirus risk and continues throughout until one is given an all-clear. They find themselves playing catch-up with the virus, ramping up testing after their outbreaks had already mushroomed. Health officials are describing individuals who flout measures from the government or fail to follow advice from medical experts, such as the need to self-isolate or practice physical distancing, as virus rebels. Firms can “anonymise” location data received from one’s smartphone by stripping out personal identifiers. Your location data is already likely being used that way by mobile operators to feed traffic information to map apps.

Source: Daily Nation April 05, 2020 07:52 UTC