Administrative/Regulatory,
Government,
Technology
May 21, 2020
Virus will test the public’s support for privacy protections
Apple and Google are releasing application interfaces this month that marshal a smartphone’s Bluetooth capability to trace a person’s movements. The smartphone broadcasts a random identifier that will be recorded by other cellphones that come within close proximity and vice versa.
Anita Taff-Rice
Founder
iCommLaw
Technology and telecommunications
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iCommLaw(r) is a Bay Area firm specializing in technology, telecommunications and cybersecurity matters.
The best way to test a society's support for privacy protections is to have a really good reason not to. COVID-19 could be such a reason.
More than 1.5 million people in the U.S have been infected with COVID-19 and the death toll has surpassed 93,000. Those numbers are expected to keep rising. Without adequate testing to confirm citizens' infection status, public health officials are focusing on tracing the movement...
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