Massachusetts sued for secretly installing tracking apps on phones

Here’s a story you may not have seen coming. Back during the height of the pandemic, state and municipal governments were scrambling to find ways to implement contact tracing to track the spread of the virus and allegedly “flatten the curve.” Much of that effort relied on self-reporting, while some areas offered apps that people could install on their phones to record their movements and determine who they had been close to. But it’s now been revealed that the Massachusetts Department of Public Health took a more, shall we say… proactive approach. They joined forces with Google to install a spyware-style tracking app on millions of people’s Android phones without bothering to tell them they had done so. And the data was vacuumed up and delivered to the government in secret. Now they are facing a lawsuit from a civil rights organization. (Fox Business)Read More