Years of efforts to safeguard personal data in the U.S. and Europe are running headlong into calls for 'drastic actions' to counter the pandemic
“You have this tremendous increase in data collection and what I think you have is the government looking the other way,” said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based consumer group Center for Digital Democracy.
“We don’t want the Chinese style of authoritarian mass surveillance to take hold in democratic countries, and there’s some risk that that could happen," said Marc Rotenberg, president of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center. "If people are asked to trade public health versus privacy, they will invariably say, ‘Well obviously public health is more important.
“It seems that people are overreacting,” he said. “Interestingly, the privacy community seems to have less of an issue with certain approaches than the general public.” He said contract tracing apps, for instance, can be a good solution since they can be easily discontinued or deleted — but they face public backlash over their use in countries like China.
Similarly, Estelle Massé, the global data protection lead at the civil rights group Access Now, cautioned against tarring each data-driven scheme with the same brush — noting that some governments have promised to rely on anonymous, “aggregated” information that cannot be traced back to any individual person.as the U.S. heads into a deadlier phase of the coronavirus pandemic.
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