State-Based Contact-Tracing Apps Are Courting Privacy Disaster

Demanding a national solution would be even worse. When states turn citizens into neighborhood snitches, it will rip the fabric of society even more, with people and families turning on each other to their own harm. ⁃ TN EditorWhile governments around the world have launched nationwide Covid-19 contact-tracing smartphone apps over the last months, the United States has pointedly not. Instead, it seems like the apps designed to detect coronavirus exposure stateside will launch on a sta