Overview
The Atlantic quoted Stewart Baker throughout an April 22 article titled "How Much Privacy Would You Give Up in Order to Stay Healthy?" The article discusses how the coronavirus has reignited the post-9/11 debate about security and civil liberties.
As general counsel of the NSA in the 1990s, Baker advocated for limiting the government's intelligence-gathering powers in the name of civil liberties. Now, in the midst of the pandemic, Baker and other surveillance proponents say that controversial measures could save lives. Baker particularly supports the idea that the government should be able to access contact data recorded by a person's smartphone's Bluetooth signal and, when necessary, location data recorded by its GPS.
Baker asks, "Which is a bigger intrusion on liberty: requiring that we all stay home and lose our jobs, or requiring that we add [such] an app to our phones?"
The full article can be read at The Atlantic.