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WHYY By Home health workers wait in line outside Philadelphia’s community vaccination clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) For the past few weeks, the start-up Philly Fighting COVID has been collecting data on tens of thousands of people in Philadelphia who want to get COVID-19 vaccines, as well as running a mass vaccination clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. During most of that time, it did so without terms and conditions or a privacy policy on its website. When PFC added a privacy policy to the site last week, it was extremely broad — likely b...

Why the abrupt change? Health Department officials say they were recently made aware of a change in Philly Fighting COVID's corporate status that happened without the city's knowledge. It went from non-profit to for-profit.

The updated company policy, edited on Monday, says "The company will not sell data to any parties." City officials said they haven't been notified of any sold data and that Philly Fighting COVID made the changes without discussing it with them. "We're working with our law department to make sure that that doesn't happen," said Farley. District Attorney Larry Krasner released this statement reading, in part: "I encourage members of the public, including City employees, who have information about what they believe to be crimes related to this matter or other pandemic relief efforts, to contact ...

City Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Interest Sign-Up Philadelphia residents can now sign up to receive notifications of when a COVID-19 vaccine will become available. City residents can inform the Department of Public Health that they want to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by providing contact information and some limited personal information at phila.gov/vaccineinterest. Those who complete the interest form will be contacted later by the Department of Public Health or one of the city’s vaccine partners when they can schedule an appointment. The information collected is secure, according to the D...

Philadelphia's official registration site will allow people to sign up to be notified when they become eligible for the vaccine.