{"id":43742,"date":"2020-05-14T07:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T12:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43742"},"modified":"2020-05-14T07:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T12:22:16","slug":"wsj-coronavirus-demands-a-privacy-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43742","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Coronavirus Demands a Privacy Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WSJ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/congress-needs-to-pass-a-coronavirus-privacy-law-11589410686\">Coronavirus Demands a Privacy Law<\/a> by Christine Wilson (\u201cSilicon Valley\u2019s role in contact tracing and social-distancing enforcement has Americans worried.\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Reopening the economy and returning to \u201cnormal life\u201d in the absence of a Covid-19 vaccine may be possible, we are told, with a combination of widespread testing and contact tracing. But these solutions will depend heavily on technology, and Silicon Valley doesn\u2019t have the best record when it comes to protecting consumer privacy. Congress must step into the breach with federal privacy legislation establishing guardrails for tech companies\u2019 handling of our most personal information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ: Coronavirus Demands a Privacy Law by Christine Wilson (\u201cSilicon Valley\u2019s role in contact tracing and social-distancing enforcement has Americans worried.\u201d):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43743,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43742\/revisions\/43743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}