Facebook’s Civil Rights Audit Facebook is also taking steps to support manual contact tracing efforts — that is, efforts which promote awareness and understanding of off-platform tracing initiatives that do not involve the sharing of Facebook data. For example, through its COVID Information Center and advertising, Facebook is helping to disseminate information about contact tracing. Facebook states that it intends to continue to support such manual tracing efforts. Facebook plans to continue with the work outlined above and will continue to assess where it can play a meaningful role in helping address the evolving health problems that society is facing related to COVID-19 with privacy in mind. G. Further Research The specific issues discussed in this chapter are set against a larger digital privacy discourse that centers around transparency, data collection minimization, consent, the impacts of inaccurate data, and myriad potential civil rights implications depending on how captured data is used. The volume of data collected by technology companies on users, non-users associated with them, and both on- and off-platform activity requires that companies, including Facebook, be fully transparent about the ways data is collected and used. Without this transparency, users have no way of knowing whether the information collected on them is accurate, let alone any way to correct errors — and those inaccuracies can have significant consequences, especially for marginalized communities. While beyond the capacity of this Audit, these privacy issues and their interconnectivity with topics like advertising, discriminatory policing and immigration enforcement, employment and lending discrimination, and algorithmic bias, are important issues with serious potential civil rights implications that are worth further study and analysis. 89