David H. Freedman

In Newsweek

Would you let the government track your smartphone if it meant we could reopen sooner?

From my cover story in the May 20, 2020, edition of Newsweek

Before the pandemic, the plan would have seemed like something ripped from a distant dystopian future in which the human race fully surrenders to Big Tech. On the April 10 online document, the logos of Google and Apple sat atop a description of the companies’ joint plan to enable America’s cellphones to keep track of everyone with whom their owners come into contact….Read more