Experts warn of privacy risk as US uses GPS to fight coronavirus spread (Q4426)

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newspaper article from 'The Guardian' published on April 2, 2020
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Experts warn of privacy risk as US uses GPS to fight coronavirus spread
newspaper article from 'The Guardian' published on April 2, 2020

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    Owing to a lack of systematic privacy protections in the US, data collected by advertising companies is often extremely detailed: companies with access to GPS location data... That data provides much more granular information on the location and movement of individuals than the mobile network data received by the UK government from carriers including O2 and BT.
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    2 April 2020
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