thousands Of Israelis have been placed in quarantine for no apparent reason, on the basis of the data of their mobile phone, has allowed the israeli ministry of Health. Nearly 12,000 people have received an SMS from the hand of the Shin Bet, the israeli domestic intelligence service, inviting them to put themselves in quarantine, said on Tuesday a spokesman for the ministry of the Interior before a parliamentary committee.
The israeli government is using its agency of homeland security for the tracing of the citizens in order to combat the increase in the number of cases of Covid-19. Applied by the Shin Bet at the beginning of the health crisis, this surveillance program controversial has been temporarily blocked by the supreme Court of the State of israel at the end of April, before being re-launched at the end of June.
