FILE PHOTO: A passenger wearing a protective mask is seen through a window as she travels on the light rail in Jerusalem amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), July 7, 2020. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - 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 being near a coronavirus carrier, are rendering themselves untraceable while in public by switching their cellphones to "airplane mode" or using prepaid "burner" SIM cards instead.
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