From WSJopinion: Silicon Valley’s role in contact-tracing apps and social-distancing enforcement should have American worried, writes FTC commissioner Christine Wilson
Reopening the economy and returning to “normal life” in the absence of a Covid-19 vaccine may be possible, we are told, with a combination of widespread testing and contact tracing.
But these solutions will depend heavily on technology, and Silicon Valley doesn’t have the best record when it comes to protecting consumer privacy. Congress must step into the breach with federal privacy legislation establishing guardrails for tech companies’ handling of our most personal information.
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