The TRACE Act is not a surveillance bill as the term is traditionally understood. The legislation would fund contact tracing efforts around the country, most of which would go toward private organizations.
. Because of potential privacy concerns posed by the first of these projects, Google and Apple banned GPS location data from contact tracing apps that rely on their technology.
The move means that state governments are unlikely to heavily rely on technology-led contact tracing efforts, as were first rolled out in North and South Dakota, as well as Utah. Instead, governments are likely to use them as a supplement to human-led efforts, as seen in New York and Massachusetts. Congress has not proposed any legislation that would expand the federal government’s role in government surveillance to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
“For surveillance of COVID-19, and the virus that causes it, SARS-COV-2, CDC is using multiple surveillance systems run in collaboration with state, local, territorial, and academic partners to monitor COVID-19 disease in the United States,”The agency has sought to update its data collection systems to increase the accuracy of its statistics, but the system ultimately relies on reports from officials and practitioners around the country.
The TRACE Act would expand funding for groups that conduct testing around the country but would not make it easier for the federal government to intervene in tracking individual cases.We rate this claim FALSE because it is not supported by our research. The bill creates no new surveillance powers on the part of the federal government and expressly provides that it does not"supersede any Federal privacy or confidentiality requirement.
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