Privacy during COVID-19

Coronavirus has turned the nation’s roiling health privacy debate on its head. Concerns about what Google and Facebook might be doing with patients’ sensitive health information have receded, and instead, Americans are being asked to allow surveillance of their daily movements and contacts, and even their temperature and other physiological changes. The federal agency in charge of policing data breaches is now saying it will back off enforcement of certain privacy rules to make it easier for hospitals and their vendors to share patient medical records with public health officials. While the relaxing of health privacy rules can be justified during a crisis, what happens after the pandemic fades away? What are your thoughts?

After 9/11, we gave up privacy for security. Will we make the same trade-off after Covid-19?