Apple, Google CEOs should be held personally liable for protecting contact tracing data, says Hawley
"If you seek to assure the public, make your stake in this project personal," wrote Hawley, a prominent tech critic. "Make a commitment that you and other executives will be personally liable if you stop protecting privacy, such as by granting advertising companies access to the interface once the pandemic is over."in an effort to combat the spread of the new coronavirus.
The partnership has drawn both praise and skepticism just as lawmakers across the political spectrum had. Several proposals are on the table, but relief measures for the ongoing pandemic have been of top priority in Congress over the past several weeks. In his letter to Apple's Tim Cook and Google's Sundar Pichai, Hawley said that even though the companies promised to use anonymized data in the project, data can often be "reidentified" by cross-checking it with another data set.
"Pairing the data from this project with the GPS data that both your companies already collect could readily reveal individual identities," Hawley wrote, adding that the project, "could create an extraordinarily precise mechanism for surveillance." Hawley said Google's record on privacy furthered his concerns. As attorney general of Missouri in 2017, Hawley had
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