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CDC's Data Centralization Raises Privacy and Delay Concerns

6/7/2025

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The CDC's initiative to centralize disease data, encompassing measles and polio, has sparked worries over privacy and the risk of delayed trend identification. With the new system run by Palantir, anxiety mounts among state officials, echoing past criticisms of outdated data management during the Covid pandemic.

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Story summary

The CDC's initiative to centralize disease data, encompassing measles and polio, has sparked worries over privacy and the risk of delayed trend identification. With the new system run by Palantir, anxiety mounts among state officials, echoing past criticisms of outdated data management during the Covid pandemic.