This is something I believe we will eventually see this become a standard in societies across the world in some for or other moving forward from this point. In my opinion I don’t think it is necessarily a bad thing. We have a technology that can vastly assist in the timely management of otherwise disastrous conditions. This technology has the ability to save lives which is never a bad thing.
That said, speed is the enemy of good practice when it comes to information management. A couple of things that really need to be injected into the conversation around this technology in any country looking at deploying it:
1. Has the process that will make the data collected anonymous been tested? Is the anomyization of the data been mathematically proven?
2. Has the code used in the application been security tested? Data is the new commodity for cyber crime. Anything that produces data will become a target, particularly one that is potentially as widespread as this type of application
3. Has the supply chain of the code been examined? Basically, do you know where the code has come from? Has all third party code used in the application been verified not to contain any malicious code or backdoors?