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What You Need to Know About Contact Tracing, Privacy, and COVID-19

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Contact tracing is seen as one way to fight COVID-19. But does the tracing, which would mean tracking who a person had been physically near in recent days, involve giving up too much privacy?

Klon Kitchen, a senior research fellow in technology at The Heritage Foundation, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to how contact tracing how works, and whether it be used to stem the spread of the coronavirus in the United States. He also discusses who would have access to the resulting information, privacy concerns, and more.

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  • The Michigan legislature has sued Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in an effort to put a stop to her coronavirus emergency orders.

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