PM Netanyahu authorized Israel intelligence agency to tap into a vast and trove of cellphone data to retrace the movements of people who have contracted the coronavirus and identify others who should be quarantined W\@halbfinger @IKershner https://t.co/eaBFWORfPk

— Ronen Bergman (@ronenbergman) March 16, 2020

I’m curious what form of surveillance technology, specifically, is being proposed here. https://t.co/QorikI9bqA

— Raphael Satter (@razhael) March 16, 2020

“Multiple sources stressed that -— if they proceed — they are not building a government database.” https://t.co/X7aFDbW4ZL pic.twitter.com/oZJ5XwmY04

— One Ring (doorbell) to surveil them all... (@hypervisible) March 17, 2020

One of the million fights we face after all this will be to make sure these shiny new toys go back in the box. https://t.co/Lv4tGPATbE

— … (@samuel_wade) March 17, 2020

Israel PM Netanyahu is moving to tap into "a vast and previously undisclosed trove of cellphone data to retrace the movements of people" with COVID-19 and to find those who should be in quarantine. This data is normally used in counter-terror operations. https://t.co/BTWYBxZz9J

— Patrick Howell O'Neill (@HowellONeill) March 16, 2020

"...there is no plan to hack into Israeli citizens’ cellphones. But experts said that was simply unnecessary because the government already receives, as a matter of course, enough data from cellphone carriers to monitor the whereabouts of nearly anyone."https://t.co/01thQjW0sD

— Yusra Murad (@ymurad__) March 16, 2020

Keeping track of coronavirus will likely lead to the expansion of already problematic surveillance practices. https://t.co/PMKcd4vnlI

— Motherboard (@motherboard) March 16, 2020

The U.S. government is in active talks with Facebook, Google and other tech companies about how they can use aggregate data from Americans' phones to combat the new coronavirus, "including tracking whether people are keeping one another at safe distances" https://t.co/95GQ5e5Fs7

— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) March 17, 2020

Since it now seems inevitable advocates of mass surveillance will use the COVID-19 crisis to boost their arguments, it's worth bearing in mind two things. First, the pending US crisis was caused by incompetent management, not a lack of surveillance powers: https://t.co/e3Dl8TUecc

— Yale ISP - WIII (@YaleISP_WIII) March 17, 2020

You can always count on the Iraelis to overreact and turn on the spy shit to extreme level. https://t.co/5XheAvaQb2

— Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (@lorenzofb) March 16, 2020

whether it's a terrorist attack or a pandemic, the State has always exploited crises to entrench more authoritarian surveillance and policing that do absolutely nothing to alleviate the crisis at hand https://t.co/C3XtODJGhB

— Janus Rose, Post-Apocalyptic Delivery Dyke (@zenalbatross) March 16, 2020

Objections to this are not about privacy - the vast majority of the use of data and mobile tech for epidemiology isn’t effective.

It is also, because it is super invasive, experimental, disproportionate, often illegal, and highly subject to abuse.https://t.co/3a2VSe0YZY https://t.co/MsNK3UgKr2

— Sean McDonald (@seanmmcdonald) March 16, 2020

Cellphone tracking of patients was approved by Israel's Attorney General, although the privacy watchdog opposes it. The Justice Ministry says it is legal in a state of emergency | Live updates https://t.co/9zhFUuTzuQ

— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) March 14, 2020

SCOOP: U.S. govt, tech companies like FB and Google have discussed ways to leverage smartphone location data to aid in coronavirus mapping. Early talks could give way to tools for experts to track social distancing.

Me w/ @lizzadwoskin and @craigtimberg https://t.co/abbDlHKoOo

— Tony Romm (@TonyRomm) March 17, 2020

Pandemics bring out all the secret tracking programs https://t.co/8rPKgNZg2m

— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) March 16, 2020

I’d urge folks to focus not only on the privacy harms of this, but to question the supposed benefits. What, exactly, are the feds going to do with detailed location data when many states haven’t imposed significant limitations on movement? 1/ https://t.co/PZNQhzVD5B

— Blake Reid (@blakereid) March 17, 2020

Israel just tasked Shin Bett to do this, with the promise that they won't keep the database of where you are and (they correlate with credit card payments) what you spent. UK also considering. hello surveillance future! https://t.co/8UWG4hdxKu

— Mary Branscombe (@marypcbuk) March 17, 2020

Israeli government too never disappoints: "The cabinet unanimously approved the use of the technology – developed initially for counterterrorism purposes" https://t.co/Zk8UGg1Ain

— Seema Chishti (@seemay) March 17, 2020

Whatever excuse you use it it's an abuse of power...

Israel to track mobile phones of suspected coronavirus cases https://t.co/Fz71r6jPuE

— Peace Unity Hope (@kindamuslim) March 17, 2020

Israel approves the use of technology to track the movements of coronavirus patients for 30 days https://t.co/B8KXTt7Gqk

— Bloomberg Middle East (@middleeast) March 17, 2020

Now, why does the US government need my telephone number?? https://t.co/mRelk4cWzX

— Cynthia McKinney PhD (@cynthiamckinney) March 17, 2020

▣ 워싱턴포스트, 분석기사

“한국의 코로나바이러스 성공 사례는 미국이 초반에 어떻게 실패했는지를 보여준다”

Washington Post (2020-03-17)https://t.co/0sB6SrFM33…/south-koreas-coronavirus-…/ pic.twitter.com/MvqJw7ADff

— Scoutmindset.stephen (@Stephen40610844) March 17, 2020

Sorta of reads, "because the left's preferences should carry the day."

Also ignores the pressure the Chinese government has put on WHO and their strategic communications campaign. https://t.co/NLZxDfxyUehttps://t.co/9zqF7UtNPv

— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) March 17, 2020

Israel is using cellphone data to track the coronavirus https://t.co/8AVqmQicxZ pic.twitter.com/RK03V5LpLG

— The Verge (@verge) March 17, 2020

Israel is using cellphone data to track the coronavirus https://t.co/wNWs5ifkbM pic.twitter.com/iX5nWDE6be

— Eric Vanderburg (@evanderburg) March 17, 2020

“...such capabilities could include real-time tracking of infected persons’ mobile phones to spot quarantine breaches and backtracking through meta-data to figure out where they had been and who they had contacted.” https://t.co/DDVbMiecSz

— One Ring (doorbell) to surveil them all... (@hypervisible) March 15, 2020

Israel to use phone-tracking tech to counter coronavirus 'invisible enemy' https://t.co/uQv8BZuMqz

— Graham Cluley (@gcluley) March 17, 2020

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: "Israel would follow similar methods used by Taiwan." https://t.co/1MfFNx9tpj

— Taiwan_in_Greece (@Taiwan_in_GR) March 16, 2020

Israel to use anti-terror tech to counter coronavirus 'invisible enemy' https://t.co/r9KLLTwLbw

— profdeibert (@RonDeibert) March 15, 2020

How low can is the planet willing to go?

What has not been presented is the long-term effects of this madness.https://t.co/VCBWxnicG7

— Adam B. Bear (@democraticbear) March 15, 2020

중국 뒤를 따라 첨단 감시기술 총동원 및 기계적 프라이버시 노출이 새로운 일상이 될 듯. 전시 동원은 어쩔수 없다지만 1️⃣나중에 제자리에 가져다 놓을지 2️⃣누가 언제 동원 결정과 합의를 했는지 3️⃣이 모든 절차가 투명히 기록되고 있는지 관심을 가져야겠지요.https://t.co/rYzjv6omgb

— Goodhyun 김국현 (@goodhyun) March 18, 2020

이스라엘 정부는 향후 30일간 코로나바이러스 확진자 또는 감염 우려가 있는 사람을 추적하기 위해 휴대전화 위치정보 추적을 할 수 있는 긴급조치를 승인했다고... https://t.co/Hhyo78u2p8

— H. Kim (@metavital) March 18, 2020

Shock doctrine.https://t.co/QkPsgjtJlY

— Ricardo Esteves Ribeiro (@rjeribeiro) March 17, 2020

It's over Biden is the presumptive winner#BidenWins #Biden2020https://t.co/cxRpX2LVni

— Darwun St James (@DarwunStJames) March 18, 2020

The ethical issue I've been talking about is here: how much of our #privacy are we willing to exchange for a chance for a safer and healthier life/society. As long as citizens can decide, it is ethically fine, but it seems #COVID19 just overwrote this.https://t.co/YjuMSqc68h

— Berci Meskó, MD, PhD (@Berci) March 18, 2020

Israel is using cellphone data to track the coronavirus https://t.co/AkQ9iPv8h5 pic.twitter.com/dzomxVa7K1

— The Verge (@verge) March 18, 2020

Has this included any discussion/consideration of the type of individualized location tracking being used by other countries? It would be a very hard case to argue that it would be legal to do so here https://t.co/xOp8CtIjNd

— ?Jake Laperruque? (@JakeLaperruque) March 17, 2020