Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia , Telenor, Telia och A1 Telekom Austria delar nu platsdata med EU för att spåra smitta.
Reuters:
»Worries about governments’ use of technology to monitor those in quarantine and track infections have intensified in recent weeks over possible privacy violations, with some raising the spectre of state surveillance.
The Commission will use anonymised data to protect privacy and aggregate mobile phone location data to coordinate measures tracking the spread of the virus, an EU official said.
To further assuage privacy concerns, the data will be deleted once the crisis is over, the official said, adding that the EU plan is not about centralising mobile data nor about policing people.«
EU:s Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Wojciech Wiewiorowski påpekar samtidigt att det är viktigt att detta bara är en tillfällig åtgärd:
»The EDPS often stresses that such developments usually do not contain the possibility to step back when the emergency is gone. I would like to stress that such solution should be still recognised as extraordinary.«
Dessutom lanserar enskilda EU-länder egna appar. I Polen har man till exempel en för att hålla koll på människor i hemkarantän. Den som inte laddar ner den riskerar att få besök av polisen.
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