Stanford CIS

An unprecedented wave of personal data could be heading to federal agencies

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"While this has been part of U.S. privacy policy for about 40 years, the rapid spread of the coronavirus could see data shared at an unprecedented scale — “hundreds of thousands of data points from hundreds of thousands of individuals,” said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Center for Internet and Society.

“We’ve never had a system on the backend to limit what the government does to it,” Gidari said during an Information Technology & Innovation Foundation webinar on Wednesday."

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