2023-05-14 14:40:02
The market-leading British mobile service providers gave their heads to a rather controversial matter recently, causing serious indignation among the residents. The UK Health Safety Agency (UKHSA) has also signed a contract with the telecommunications provider O2 and the holding company BT Group.
He did all this in order to monitor the movement of the population as effectively as possible. Similar measures were previously introduced during the coronavirus epidemic.
It is with BT Group, which operates mobile network operator EE agreement it will last until April 2025, while the agreement reached with O2 will end following 1 year.
The location data, which BT will provide to UKHSA, will also enable monitoring of rail and road, as well as pedestrian traffic in cities and outlying areas. The collected data will be summarized later.
The available information is expected to be used to map the routes of disease transmission. This would make possible future public health emergencies easier to handle. In addition, they would also be able to smoothly deal with emergency situations arising as a result of biological and weather conditions.
The authority trusts that the data will provide insight into behavioral changes following the pandemic. As a result, they can better understand the effects of potential threats.
“For the analysis of vaccination programs, it is important to be able to interpret the mixing between age groups, as this is the only way to filter out the effects that are being followed. For this, they are currently using data from before the Covid-19 pandemic, which need to be updated in order to be able to provide up-to-date information for the public health sector. Through mobility statistics, UKHSA is able to recognize the changes that have taken place”can be read in the BT Group contract.
Naturally, the population does not take kindly to this and resents their vulnerability. By the way, this is not the first time that the British government has drastically violated the private sphere of citizens. Last November, for example, a bill was submitted that would allow the authorities to read into anyone’s private conversations without limit, if they feel like it.
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