As the COVID-19 pandemic grips the globe, new surveillance methods are already raising new privacy and security challenges. Chief among these potential problems is the sudden turn by the government toward using geolocation data to track millions of Americans’ cell phones in monitoring the spread of the disease. Biometric and facial recognition technologies are also rapidly being adopted, and in some cases, melded together in new ways to battle the disease’s outbreak. In China, tablets affixed to the back of bus drivers’ seats record passengers body temperatures and take snapshots of their faces.”]

