with Tonya RileyCoronavirus data is the new front in the Washington privacy battles. The United States has been much slower than other countries to embrace digital contact tracing and other surveillance technologies to enforce social distancing. But public officials across the country are using aggregated data from smartphones and tech companies to measure the effectiveness of stay-at-home orders. As local officials ease some of those restrictions, urgency is growing to ensure robust contact tracing is in place. The same disputes that have prevented federal privacy legislation from passing for years could derail this effort.

Source: Washington Post May 15, 2020 13:07 UTC