What You Need to Know About Contact Tracing, Privacy, and COVID-19

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🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Contact tracing is seen as one way to fight COVID-19. But does the tracing, which would mean tracking who a person had been physically near in recent days, involve giving up too much privacy? Klon Kitchen, a senior research fellow in technology at The Heritage Foundation, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to how contact tracing how works, and whether it be used to stem the spread of the coronavirus in the United States. He also discusses who would have access to the resulting information, privacy concerns, and more. We also cover these stories: The Little Sisters of the Poor were back at the Supreme Court. Vice President Mike Pence is pleased with the Justice Department's decision to side with a Virginia church in a lawsuit against Gov. Ralph Northam. The Michigan legislature has sued Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in an effort to put a stop to her coronavirus emergency orders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, May 7th. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:10.3	And I'm Rachel Del Judas. Experts are saying contact tracing is necessary to respond to COVID-19.
0:16.7	Klin Kitchen, a senior research fellow in technology at the Heritage Foundation, joins me on the Daily Signal Podcast to unpack what contact
0:24.1	tracing is, how it will be used, and more. Don't forget. If you're enjoying
0:28.9	this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or a five- star rating on Apple Podcasts and encourage others to
0:34.9	subscribe.
0:35.9	Now, on to our top news.
0:39.3	The Little Sisters of the Poor were back in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. In 2016 the Catholic
0:45.3	Order of Nuns was at the Supreme Court arguing they shouldn't have to violate
0:49.7	their beliefs and offer employees contraceptive coverage.
0:54.0	In 2017, the Trump administration issued a rule that exempted religious organizations from having
0:59.8	to provide contraceptive coverage.
1:02.4	But that wasn't the end of the story because the state
1:04.7	of Pennsylvania sued the federal government over the exemption. And so on
1:09.9	Wednesday the justices heard arguments via teleconference for the case, Little Sisters of
1:15.3	the Poor, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
1:18.6	Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined the hearing via phone from a hospital where she's being treated.
1:24.1	Luke Goodrich, a lawyer for Beckett law firm,
1:26.8	tweeted after the hearing, key takeaways
1:29.6	from the Little Sister's argument at hashtag Scottish
1:32.2	today. One, it was clear the government has many
1:35.8	ways to give out contraception. It doesn't need to conscript nuns so hashtag
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