Big Brother in Public Health? New Contact Tracing Tactic Raises Privacy Concerns

Route Fifty: Tech companies’ development of contact tracing apps to assist in efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak has researchers and lawmakers alike worried about the protection of sensitive personal health information.

But an analog contact tracing tactic that some state and local governments are deploying—requiring businesses to collect data about their customers and turn it over to health departments if there is a connection to a positive case—is also raising privacy concerns among some public health officials.

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