1、CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i COVID-19, Digital Surveillance, and Privacy: Fourth Amendment Considerations April 16, 2020 As COVID-19 has spread across the globe, countries like South Korea and Israel have employed digital surveillanc
2、e measures using cell phone location data, among other things, in an effort to track and limit the viruss transmission. In the United States, the federal government and some state and local governments have reportedly begun to gather geolocation data voluntarily provided by the mobile advertising in
3、dustry to assess how people are continuing to move and congregate during the pandemic. Technology companies such as Google and Facebook have also discussed leveraging some of their aggregated and anonymized location data for similar purposes. Moreover, the recently passed CARES Act provides, as part
4、 of new funding for the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that the CDC must report to Congress within 30 days on “the development of a public health surveillance and data collection system for coronavirus.” In light of these developments, some
