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Concerns over bill to force telecom providers to share data with authorities

Telecom providers are concerned about a bill that will temporarily force them to collect more data about people's travel behavior and share that anonymously with the Dutch authorities. The idea is that the data will be shared with public health institute RIVM to help track and fight the spread of the coronavirus, but telecom providers are worried that it will eventually also end up with intelligence and investigative services, sources from inside the telecom industry told NOS. When this bill takes effect, telecom providers must supply Statistics Netherlands with anonymous data about people's movements between municipalities on a daily basis. According to the broadcaster's sources, people inside the telecom industry are concerned that this new database will quickly become interesting to investigative services, because this type of data is not currently being collected.

NL Times
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