Pedestrians wear face masks as they walk in a street of Ankara, Turkey. Cayir argued that reporting rule violations with photos ‘would encourage a culture of denunciation, the examples of which have already been seen in Turkey’. — AFP
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s coronavirus tracking app is facing fire from privacy advocates for adding a feature allowing users to report social distancing rule violations, with the option to send photos.
Critics say the function breaches civil liberties and promotes a “culture of denunciation”.
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