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May 1, 2020

How Americans see digital privacy issues amid the COVID-19 outbreak

Majorities favored the right to allow Americans to have medical data permanently deleted in 2019

Majorities favored the right to allow Americans to have medical data permanently deleted in 2019

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How Americans see digital privacy issues amid the COVID-19 outbreak
Majorities favored the right to allow Americans to have medical data permanently deleted in 2019
Relatively few Americans said in 2019 that they personally benefit a lot from the data companies or the government collected about them, and a majority said the potential risks of data collection outweighed the benefits
In 2019, a majority of black and Hispanic adults believed the government was tracking at least most of their online and cellphone activity
Seven-in-ten Americans said in 2019 that their personal info was less secure than five years earlier
More Americans think location tracking through cellphones won’t make a difference in limiting the spread of COVID-19 than say it would help
Americans divided on whether it’s acceptable for the government to track people who have tested positive for COVID-19 through their cellphone