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Privacy versus pandemic, episode 3

I'm glad it's not just me that is finding it challenging to balance my usual concerns about how my data is being used with the hope that the tech firms that hold massive consumer datasets can use it to help us through the pandemic.

More active debate about the right boundary between individual rights and common good, in a state of emergency, can only be a good thing.

Charlie Warzel, an Opinion writer for The New York Times, had been incensed about the smartphone apps that track our paths through the world. Then, he said, the urgency of the pandemic made him question his beliefs.

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digital, privacy, data, covid-19