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Apr 16, 2020 4 min

Using mobile data to trace COVID-19 contacts

from Podcast2 Hosted by Channel Africa

The government of South Africa has indicated its intention to use cell phone data in the fight against COVID-19. The idea is to use location-based services to easily find recent contacts of coronavirus patients in a bid to control the spread of the disease. Worried citizens have had to be assured that there won't be any spying on anyone. Many mobile network operators also had questions around the legality of contact tracing. For more on the feasibility of this strategy in the COVID-19 fight, Channel Africa's Zikhona Miso spoke to Livia Dyer, Partner at the law firm Bowmans.

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