Airplane mode, prepaid SIMs used to dodge COVID-19 tracking

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Airplane mode, prepaid SIMs used to dodge COVID-19 tracking

Low-tech evasion methods employed.

Israel's cellphone surveillance for coronavirus contact-tracing may have overcome challenges by privacy watchdogs, but the state tracking policy is hard put to deal with low-tech evasion methods seemingly lifted from TV cop shows. Some Israelis, fearing a quarantine order after unwittingly ...

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