Various tech sector companies are collecting location data and sharing it with the US government in its effort to track the movement of people during the COVID-19 epidemic. The Wall Street Journal says tech companies and firms from the mobile ad industry are giving authorities phone data that supposedly has been stripped of any identifiable information. The practice of gathering location data to chart peoples movement during the pandemic is nothing new, but its use in the United States has yet to be implemented, or at least acknowledged, by the government.”]