With the rise of cases I notice a lot of people calling the authorities to release personal information of patients having tested positive for the novel coronavirus. People think the release of such personal information will make contact tracing a much quicker exercise.

I've had arguments with people on Facebook. I even reported people to the Cybercrime Unit for breaching the Data Protection Act by sharing the personal information of COVID-19 patients.

People argue that contact tracing will be faster if personal information of patients is released. Many are citing the example of how South Korea released information to accelerate contact tracing. Unfortunately, people do not read or enquire properly.

South Korea has an experience dealing from previous epidemics, such as the MERS outbreak in 2015. Their medical personnel and relevant authorities were able to quickly step up with containment plans.

South Korean authorities did not release personal information of patients. It is wrong to assume that.

Legislation enacted since then gave the government authority to collect mobile phone, credit card, and other data from those who test positive to reconstruct their recent whereabouts. That information, stripped of personal identifiers, is shared on social media apps that allow others to determine whether they may have crossed paths with an infected person.
Source: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Information shared by the South Korean authorities were anonymized.

The school is on the main road to the left side when going towards Flacq. The Safe City camera is installed next to the school near the pedestrian crossing. If I am not mistaken it used to point towards the road to the west side, i.e towards traffic coming from Rose-Hill/Port-Louis.

The camera has been pointing upwards for several weeks now. I don't recall since when. At first I thought it would be seen and reported, then perhaps be fixed within a few days since that spot has a police officer twice a day helping children and parents cross the road for the school. Besides the camera is found on the main road which cannot be missed by a passing Police Patrol vehicle.

Alas, even after several weeks it seems no one reported this anomaly.

Therefore, I took a few pictures of this upwards facing camera and reported it using the CSU Portal today (9 Sep 2019). Let's see how long it takes for someone to revert back or the camera getting fixed.

Update

An officer of the Citizens Advice Bureau replied the ticket the next day, i.e on Tuesday 10 Sep 2019, informing me that my ticket has been transferred to the Police department for necessary action at their end.

Five days later, i.e on Sunday 15 Sep 2019, the camera was fixed.