Governments are increasingly using cellphone location data to manage the coronavirus

A billboard in Naples reads “All together, without fear.”| Photo by Carlo Hermann / AFP via Getty Images As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the world, more governments are relying on mobile carrier data to track everything from patients who should be isolated to how well people are following limited-movement edicts.Mobile carriers in the European Union are sharing data with health authorities in Italy, Germany, and Austria to help monitor whether people are followin