In 2020, COVID-19 derailed the privacy debate in the U.S.: From biometric monitoring to unregulated contact tracing, the crisis opened up new privacy vulnerabilities that regulators did little to address.
[Adam Schwartz, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation] is at least relieved that so many of the "bad ideas" that
emerged at the beginning of 2020 have not been adopted in the U.S. But
as the pandemic rages on through 2021, the fight for privacy in the face
of a global health crisis will undoubtedly continue.
