Contact Tracing for COVID-19 vs. data privacy
Contact tracing programs are designed to track potential infections by letting people know that they’ve been in close proximity to someone who’s tested positive for a disease. Hayley Tsukayama from the Electronic Frontier Foundation joins us to breakdown the contact tracing programs for COVID-19 and what we should be concerned about.
Sources:
- Press release from Electronic Frontier Foundation... ‘EFF Calls on California Gov. Newsom to Mandate Data Privacy Protections for Californians who Participate in COVID-19 Contact Tracing Programs’
- 2020-08 Coalition Letter to Governor/Legislature on Contact Tracing and Privacy
- California Connected website link
- @HTsuka