Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has authorized the country’s internal security agency to tap into a vast and previously undisclosed trove of cellphone data to retrace the movements of people who have contracted the coronavirus and identify others who should be quarantined because their paths crossed.
Source: New York Times
Date: March 19th, 2020
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/world/middleeast/israel-coronavirus-cellphone-tracking.html
Discussion
- What are some of the ethical issues of ” tap[ing] into a vast and previously undisclosed trove of cellphone data to retrace the movements of people “?
- What sort of algorithm would it take to track someone, and then also who they have been in contact with?
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