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Re:Gainesville, Florida, put its internal emails online with... by xnyan on Saturday April 04, 2020 @11:37AM (#22778847)
I would assume they are referring to the to the widespread [1,2,3] use of data gathered from smartphones for getting epidemiological data. Every nation is doing it.

I would say it's not a great comparison, bad actors wiping their phone is not the same as gathering of bulk data to address a pandemic.

1) https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615329/coronavirus-south-...

2) https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/14/coronavir...

3) https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200330/United-States-tra...

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Re:Gainesville, Florida, put its internal emails online with... by jacobush on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @10:23PM (#22809489)
Sweden is not using smartphone or base station location data for tracking of Corona.

https://www.datainspektionen.se/nyheter/coronaviruset-och-di...

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