As the disease spreads, so does the use of tracking apps. But is our privacy a fair price to pay to fight the virus? Kareem Fahim, Min Joo Kim, and Steve Hendrix investigate
People are anxious. They are worried. They want to go back to normal, to handle doorknobs, to online dateEpidemiologists and government health officials have taken a central role in designing some of the coronavirus tracking programs. Privacy groups have been far more concerned when intelligence agencies have taken the lead, as they have in Pakistan and Israel, or when governments outsource tracing to private companies.
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