Police officers monitor traffic on the streets from surveillance camera footages as Argentine President Alberto Fernandez announced an extension of the lockdown it has imposed as a measure to control the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Privacy groups and researchers warn that measures brought in to protect and monitor citizens in exceptional circumstances, when most people accept they are needed, could outlast the current crisis. — Reuters
LONDON: From facial recognition to phone tracking, authorities have rolled out a vast range of surveillance tools to trace infections and enforce quarantines during the new coronavirus outbreak.
The deadly respiratory disease has so far infected more than 2.1 million people worldwide and killed about 145,000, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
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