Privacy advocates advise caution when tracking the movements of patients or those infected with the new coronavirus, as an effort to minimize the pandemics effect. U.S. officials are in active discussions with technology giants like Facebook and Google as well as public health experts about how potentially to use location data collected from cell phones to track whether people are practicing social distancing. Israel’s plan is to use mobile-phone tracking technology to recreate the history of movements of a person infected with COVID-19 in an aim to identify people who might have been exposed.”]
Source: https://threatpost.com/authorities-mobile-phone-tracking-covid-19-spread/153903/