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Congressional Democrats have reintroduced a privacy bill to help consumers avoid being in the dark about how their COVID-19 data can be used.
Congressional Democrats have again introduced legislation designed to help safeguard the privacy of COVID-19 health data collected for public health purposes.
Similar proposals were introduced by Democratic lawmakers last year as part of a coronavirus relief package, but those provisions did not win Congressional approval.
The Democratic senators and representatives who introduced this year’s legislation say the Public Health Emergency Privacy Act sets “strong and enforceable privacy and data security rights for health information” as technology companies and public health agencies deploy “new tools to fight the spread of COVID-19, including contact tracing apps, digital monitoring, home tests and vaccine appointment bookings.”