Preventing the spread of infection Providing data to the government Cooperation Movement, April 3, 18:36, major IT companies
In response to a request from the government to provide data such as location information to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus among major IT companies and mobile phone companies, taking into account personal information, etc. There are moves to cooperate.
This week, the government urged mobile phone companies and major IT companies to provide location and other data to help understand the flow of people in each region and help detect the new coronavirus population early. Was.
In this regard, Yahoo has decided to provide non-personally identifiable statistical data, subject to an agreement with the government.
The agreement stipulates that the purpose of using the data should be clearly limited, that Yahoo could stop providing it at its discretion, and that the company be informed in what form the data was used to combat the new coronavirus. .
As data to be provided, location information and words searched by users on the Internet are being considered.
In response to a request from the government, NTT DOCOMO also plans to provide data on how many people are in a certain area by age and gender based on data from mobile phone base stations.
Other IT companies and mobile phone companies, such as Rakuten, are also considering what kind of data can be provided.