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China fights the coronavirus with mobile location data




This article originally appeared on ABACUSChina’s newest weapon in battling the spread of the coronavirus? Location data from mobile users. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced on Thursday that it launched a new service allowing Chinese telecom subscribers to receive a list of provinces and cities visited within the last 14 days via SMS. The country’s three state-owned mobile service providers — China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom — started sending…



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