Emerging Health Issues

COVID-19 contact-tracing technology raises privacy concerns

(By Laura Dyrda for Becker’s Hospital Review)

The efforts to contact trace COVID-19 spread requires more surveillance, and it’s unclear whether tracking the virus spread for greater public health will compromise individual privacy.

To prevent further coronavirus spread, public health experts recommend contact-tracing in the next phase of the pandemic as the U.S. reopens its economy. But that’s easier said than done.  Continue reading article here…

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