(CBS News)A growing number of public health officials around the country are asking Americans to use smartphones to help stop the coronavirus from spreading. At least 10 states are offering or planning to offer cellphone apps (like Utah’s Healthy Together app) to track people who may have been exposed to the virus, part of a process known as contact tracing.
But privacy is a concern, and so far, getting people to use those apps has been a challenge.
As “CBS This Morning” co-host Tony Dokoupil discovered, many Americans aren’t too fond of being followed around. “How comfortable would you be if I were to give you a tracking device,” he asked Jaime Mendicino, “and monitored your movements throughout the day?”