Is tracking adherence to stay-at-home mandates a privacy concern?
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Aaron Nicodemus2020-04-09T18:36:00
Google has offered health officials a way to use data to monitor people’s behavior during the government’s mandatory quarantines, but some say the gesture may “raise significant privacy concerns.”
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