The Washington, D.C., government used phone GPS records provided by a private data broker to track citizens in order to study the spread of COVID-19, according to public records.
The D.C. government’s Department of Health acquired raw phone location data from location data broker Veraset, according to public records accessed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital privacy group. The data was acquired by the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) and The Lab @ DC, a division of the Office of the City Administrator, as part of a program intended to inform the city’s response to COVID-19.
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