Government Tracking How People Move Around in Coronavirus Pandemic
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Tracking How People Move Around in Coronavirus Pandemic
Goal is to get location data in up to
500 U.S. cities to help plan response; privacy concerns call for “strong legal
safeguards,” activist says
ByByron TauUpdated March 28, 2020 6:50 pm
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WASHINGTON—Government officials across the U.S. are using
location data from millions of cellphones in a bid to better understand the
movements of Americans during the coronavirus pandemic and how they may
be affecting the spread of the disease.
The federal government,
through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and state and local
governments have started to receive analyses about the presence and movement of
people in certain areas of geographic interest drawn from cellphone data,
people familiar with the matter said. The data comes from the mobile
advertising industry rather than cellphone carriers.
The
aim is to create a portal for federal, state and local officials that contains
geolocation data in what could be as many as 500 cities across the U.S., one of
the people said, to help plan the epidemic response.
The
data—which is stripped of identifying information like the name of a phone’s
owner—could help officials learn how coronavirus is spreading around the
country and help blunt its advance. It shows which retail establishments, parks
and other public spaces are still drawing crowds that could risk accelerating
the transmission of the virus, according to people familiar with the matter. In
one such case, researchers found that New Yorkers were congregating in large
numbers in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and handed that information over to local
authorities, one person said. Warning notices have been posted at parks in New
York City, but they haven’t been closed.
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