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As societies begin the slow process of reopening from COVID-19 lockdown, governments across the world are turning to surveillance measures to enable a safe return to increased person-to-person contact. These include, most notably, laws that allow them to use phone data for “contact tracing,†as well as to monitor those who are supposed to be under quarantine. Among the governments considering such measures are not just those known for their authoritarian tendencies, but relatively free, privacy-respecting countries such as South Korea, the U.K., and indeed, Canada.
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