Security News > 2020 > March > Pervasive digital surveillance of citizens deployed in COVID-19 fight, with rules that send genie back to bottle
Pervasive surveillance through digital technologies is the business model of Facebook and Google.
Speaking elsewhere, Netanyhau said the digital tools are those used by Israeli security agency Shin Bet to observe terrorists.
While the feature is a digital replica of a paper registration form offered to incoming travellers, the app asks for location permission and tries to turn on Bluetooth every time it is activated.
Computer Emergency Response Team in Farsi chief incident response officer Nariman Gharib has claimed that the Iranian government's COVID-diagnosis app tracks its users.
Probably not: plenty of us give away our location data to exercise-tracking apps for the sheer fun of it and government agencies gleefully hoover up what they call "Open source intelligence".