Plenkovic: Anyone who has a smart phone has given everything to Google and FB

"Regardless of some circles who think that this is an opportunity for this government to meddle in the privacy of citizens, let's be realistic - who in the government cares about who speaks to whom on the phone? That is the last thing that could cross my mind or that of the people around me. Let's eliminate the theory that this is an opportunity for us to monitor who is speaking to whom on the phone because that is so banal and wrong that I cannot believe that it can be so attractive a topic to even be discussed at a time like this. Anyone who has a smart phone has given everything to Google and Facebook. They know exactly where you are, what you watch on the internet. They know everything about you at any given moment," he underscored.

The point of this is something that is occurring in the entire world and there are examples of countries that use modern technology and put it to use for the health of their citizens.

The first thing an epidemiologist asks is, where have you been, who have you spoken to, and not everyone will provide that information, yet holding back information that could be useful to doctors so that someone else does not contract the disease is a fairly significant detail and that is the entire point. This is related only to COVID, only to the context of self-isolation and to the fact that we have to be disciplined, and that is the entire point. In this situation, believe me, for any of us who are involved in managing the crisis, the last thing in the world would be to bother about who is speaking to whom on the phone, said Plenkovic.