Even a burner phone paid for with cash can reveal your identity and where you’ve been. A data privacy expert explains.
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It’s increasingly difficult to move about – both in the physical world and online – without being tracked.
Even a burner phone paid for with cash can reveal your identity and where you’ve been. A data privacy expert explains.
Facial recognition, social media and location tracking give law enforcement a leg up in a monumental investigation.
In the current pandemic, finding the right balance between the protection of public health and respecting civil liberties has proven to be supremely difficult.
In 44 states and the District of Columbia, voters can keep an eye on where their ballot is through systems that track when a ballot is requested by, sent to and returned by the voter.
The NZ COVID Tracer app helps you keep track of places you visit in New Zealand, in case anyone infected also visited. But the app has some shortcomings that won’t be fixed until June at the earliest.
The federal government wants Australians to sign up to the TraceTogether app, which logs your social interactions via bluetooth. But how much privacy will we sacrifice to combat COVID-19?
Our mobile phone’s location data could be a valuable tool to help track and trace the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. The government has the legal power to do it, given what’s at stake.
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Professor of Cyber Security and Policy, Tufts University
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Professor of Film & Media Studies, University of California, Irvine
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Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
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Professeur de Droit. co-Director of the MSc in Health Management & Data Intelligence. Droit international des affaires, Business and Compliance. Health management, EM Lyon Business School
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Lecturer in Information and Communication Technologies, CQUniversity Australia
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Adjunct Professor, School of Information Technology, Deakin University
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Lecturer, School of Management, Operations and Marketing, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State
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Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society & School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
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Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
