Australian authorities used phone location tracking to retrace steps of couple with coronavirus

With coronavirus continuing to spread and world governments doing what they can to halt it, it was inevitable that data privacy would enter the fray at some point.

That's exactly what happened in Australia this weekABC reported that law enforcement are using phone tracking technology to retrace the movements of a Chinese couple who traveled from Guangzhou to Adelaide in January while they were unknowingly infected with the virus.

Australian police told ABC that the measure was taken out of concern for public safety. The two tourists may not have known enough about the areas they visited to paint a complete picture of where they'd been, so police used exceptions carved out in Australia's telecommunications privacy laws to check where their phones had been.  Read more...