According to an Italian newspaper, it is not to monitor the phones but to control the data passing a telephone kiosk telephone to another.
The Lombardy region, the most affected region in Italy by the outbreak of Covid-19, with more than 16,000 cases, of which 1640 dead, deplores the fact that only 60% of its population remains in the house, according to the monitoring of mobile phones.
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The Italian government has banned all travel non-essential for reasons of work or health in order to try to stem the spread of the coronavirus, which has already infected over 31 500 people and is 2503 dead, making the peninsula the european country most affected.
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According to Corriere della sera, main Italian daily newspaper, telephone operators have placed at the disposal of Lombardy, a wealthy region of the north, which includes Milan, the data relating to the passage of a mobile phone terminal telephone to another.
decreases in travel of 20% to 50%
“It is not a control to monitor a phone in itself, the law on privacy would not allow it, but a technology that can control the downward movements of people in relation to a given period”, explains the daily.
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Lombardy is taken as the date of departure on the 20th February, the day the first death of Covid-19 has been announced in a town not far from Milan, its capital.
The reductions of trips, according to the periods since that date, 20% to 50%, being currently around 40%, “too little” for the president of the region, Attilio Fontana.
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The governor of the Veneto region and neighboring (north-east), Luca Zaia, it was also the view that the tracing of the movement of individuals through their mobile phone “is an excellent solution” to enforce the containment, even if he admits that this may pose a problem of privacy.
