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Civil Liberties Group Raises Privacy Concerns About COVID-19 Data Tracking

Policymakers should focus on preserving privacy and liberty when addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, while remembering lessons from the 9/11 attacks, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Chair Adam Klein and member Ed Felten wrote. The question isn’t whether new programs…

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are needed, but how to implement them, they wrote Saturday for Politico. They noted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s $500 million COVID-19 surveillance and data collection system, and the government’s analysis of cellphone geolocation data via service providers to track and predict the disease’s impact.