Privacy vs pandemic: government tracking of mobile phones could be a potent weapon against COVID-19
- Written by: Patrick Fair, Adjunct Professor, School of Information Technology, Deakin University
Borders, beaches, pubs and churches are closed, large events are cancelled, and travellers are subject to 14 days’ isolation – all at significant cost to taxpayers and the economy. But could telecommunications technology offer a more targeted approach to controlling the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus?
One possibility is to use...