Australian authorities have resorted to a mobile phone tracking system to identify the locations visited by a couple infected with the coronavirus, in a bid to prevent the virus from spreading and check all their people who came into contact with them.
The couple traveled from Johann, China, to Adelaide, Australia, to attend a home auction before being diagnosed with coronavirus and isolated in hospital.
Both are in steady state and cooperate with state authorities to provide more information about places visited in Adelaide.
To get a better picture of their movements in the area, police used a cell phone tracking system commonly used to track criminals.
The system requires nothing more than a phone number and helps to recovery πληροφοριών, όπως τα δεδομένα τοποθεσίας που συλλέχθηκαν κάθε φορά που το mobile phone was connected to a cellular antenna. This data is collected by mobile operators and has nothing to do with whether you have activated the gps system.
Under Australian law, mobile operators are required to collect this information and store it for two years. It is possible to hand over this data to the legal authorities order.
The chief public servant healths in Adelaide, Nicola Spurrier, said the system is particularly important because the couple do not live in Australia, and cannot accurately describe the areas they visited. Using cell phone data, they can better pinpoint these locations.
For the record, the property in Adelaide, where the couple visited and attended their auction, was sealed as a precautionary measure.
