Americans divided on whether it’s acceptable for the government to track people who have tested positive for COVID-19 through their cellphone

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May 4, 2020

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

Americans divided on whether it’s acceptable for the government to track people who have tested positive for COVID-19 through their cellphone

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Americans divided on whether it’s acceptable for the government to track people who have tested positive for COVID-19 through their cellphone

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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

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