Netanyahu ally Shaked says tracking virus patients problematic, should be supervised

MK Ayelet Shaked of the Netanyahu-aligned Yamina party acknowledges that the new decision to digitally track the location of coronavirus patients via their phones are problematic, and says she intends to ensure it causes minimal violation of privacy.

Yamina lawmaker Ayelet Shaked at the Maariv conference in Herzliya, on February 26, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Speaking to the Ynet website, Shaked, a former justice minister, says the tracking is “an extreme step and severe violation of privacy, but it could save lives and large sums of money for the state.”

“I intend to personally monitor the action and make sure it is done in a minimal and supervised fashion, and that it will be halted immediately as the danger is removed while destroying all the information gathered,” she adds.