An app for that: covid surveillance

Published: April 6, 2020, 11:10 a.m.

b'To keep track of the spread of covid-19, some governments are turning to digital surveillance, using mobile-phone apps and data networks. We ask whether this will work\\u2014and examine the threat to privacy posed by a digital panopticon. Britain\\u2019s Labour Party has a new leader. We ask in which direction Sir Keir Starmer will lead the opposition. And we report on the northern hemisphere\\u2019s winter that wasn\\u2019t. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/radiooffer


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