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Germany Backs Away From Compiling Coronavirus Contacts In A Central Database

Privacy advocates had warned against Germany's plan to store cellphone-tracking information in a central database rather than on users' phones.

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Corrected: April 26, 2020 at 10:00 PM MDT
An earlier version of this story misspelled Jens Spahn's first name as Mens.
Matthew S. Schwartz is a reporter with NPR's news desk. Before coming to NPR, Schwartz worked as a reporter for Washington, DC, member station WAMU, where he won the national Edward R. Murrow award for feature reporting in large market radio. Previously, Schwartz worked as a technology reporter covering the intricacies of Internet regulation. In a past life, Schwartz was a Washington telecom lawyer. He got his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and his B.A. from the University of Michigan ("Go Blue!").