Covid-19: Pandemic data-sharing puts new pressure on privacy protections

Consumer advocates fear that an emphasis on health over privacy could undermine the protection of civil liberties, similar to what happened after 9/11, when the US secretly began collecting mass amounts of data on its own citizens in an effort to track down terrorists. — Bloomberg

Data sharing by technology companies is helping government officials fight the dizzying spread of the coronavirus by monitoring compliance with social distancing and stay-at-home orders.

It’s also putting privacy experts on edge.