Suit Alleges Massachusetts Health Agency Covertly Installed Phone Spyware to Track, Combat COVID-19
The app does not appear on the phone’s mobile screen and can only be found by going into the device’s “settings.”
The Massachusetts Public Health Department worked with Google to automatically and covertly install spyware on over 1 million residents’ smartphones to fight COVID-19, a lawsuit filed by the nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance alleges.
Since June 2021, the health agency has secretly installed a COVID tracing and tracking app on one million Android phones in the state without obtaining search warrants, the class-action lawsuit states.