Government Spyware for Your Phone? There’s an App for That

Robert Wright will admit he's not much of a techie, but he knows that by law he has the right to reject an App getting downloaded on his Android smartphone. Mr. Wright along with millions of others like him were shocked to learn the Massachusetts Department of Public Health worked with Google to auto-install spyware on the smartphones of more than one million unknowing Commonwealth residents, without their knowledge or consent, in a misguided effort to combat Covid-19. So he is suing them.