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More on Coronavirus!

German health minister calls for cancellation of events as Covid-19 spreads
https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020...-covid-19/

"After many discussions with those responsible, I emphatically encourage the cancellation of events with more than 1,000 participants until further notice," Jens Spahn, the government's point man on coordinating action to contain contagion, wrote on Twitter.
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Rules governing compensation for workers forced to cut working hours because of the crisis may also be eased, and investments may be ramped up to boost the economy.

So Melana and TsunamiJurai, you might soon miss many public activities in your respective areas.

Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.
"I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime," the man said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/goo...m-n1151761
So it's unsafe to download exercise oriented Android apps!?

Still confused ─ and very worried ─ McCoy examined his phone. An avid biker, he used an exercise-tracking app, RunKeeper, to record his rides. The app relied on his phone’s location services, which fed his movements to Google. He looked up his route on the day of the March 29, 2019, burglary and saw that he had passed the victim’s house three times within an hour, part of his frequent loops through his neighborhood, he said.
“It was a nightmare scenario,” McCoy recalled. “I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime. And I was the lead suspect.”

How do police enforcement agencies in the USA get this data? They do it via the geofence warrants. Google and other companies are forced to provide the police and FBI with data if they request it.

CIA funnels cash to private company aimed at defeating Huawei
Venture capital fund taps Parallel Wireless in bid to stop China's 5G dominance
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/202...at-huawei/

O_O Well, it seems you Americans kind of own a communications developer company after all. It's name is In-Q-Tel, the CIA-contracted venture capital fund.