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The U.S. wants smartphone location data to fight coronavirus. Privacy advocates are frightened.

Federal neatly being officials say they will use anonymous, aggregated individual data accrued by the use of the tech companies to map the spread of the virus.
Federal health officials say they could use anonymous, aggregated user data collected by the tech companies to map the spread of the virus.

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