Long before the Coronavirus emergency law, Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics had been tracking civilian mobile phones

An emergency law of the cabinet must regulate that the government can monitor the mobile phones of citizens in the Netherlands for the fight against COVID-19, but it now appears that the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) previously did this on a large scale.

Together with Vodafone, Statistics Netherlands recorded how many people visited King’s Day 2018 in Amsterdam and where they came from. The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) is therefore examining whether the statistical office has thereby violated the law.

Source: Lang voor de coronaspoedwet volgde het CBS al telefoons van burgers – NRC