MIT Researchers Launch Location-Tracking Effort for the New Coronavirus

"Governments accessing any kind of location data, whether anonymized or not, is always a privacy risk, even though health officials need it during a crisis, says Albert Gidari, the consulting director of privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society.

“At the end of the day, there’s always a risk of misuse of the data,” Mr. Gidari says.

Mr. Gidari pointed out that Israel, which has come under fire by privacy critics over some of its surveillance technology, also recently launched an opt-in location-tracking app for citizens called “The Shield.”"