Europe's internal market commissioner called on companies to share aggregated data from people’s mobile phones to track how coronavirus was spreading
The European Commission on Monday urged Europe's telecoms giants including Deutsche Telekom and Orange to share reams of people's mobile data from across the region to help predict the spread of the coronavirus.
“We will select one big operator by country,” Breton said. "We want to be very fast and follow this on a daily basis." the General Data Protection Regulation, and e-privacy legislation. The European Data Protection Supervisor would also be involved, the EU executive added. at the project last week, a Commission official said the data would not be used to track whether people are complying with national containment measures.
Mats Granryd, head of GSMA, said his association “and its members are doing everything they can to help the global fight against COVID-19." He added that his members would work with the Commission, national authorities and international groups to use data to fight the crisis, but added any agreement would comply with European privacy standards.
One executive, who spoke with POLITICO, cautioned that Brussels’ new plan could be part of the Commission’s broader strategy on data, and questioned which operators would be willing to sign up.
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