What a strange time has come. Germany, which is perhaps the most well-known country in the world for privacy, is now thinking of developing a mobile app that will also track the public relations of people affected by Covid-19.
Earlier this week, the British Prime Minister shared a photo of an online cabinet meeting. The picture also showed the ID of the online meeting and the 'user names' of the ministers (ie the names they use online).
The National Health Service in England has released a document that looks like it has changed its policy on patient data, as it gives staff more information about the Corona virus patient information. ۔
It states that the data will help to understand trends and will be used to monitor the effects of the virus and patients with Covid 19 or those who are at risk, namely, such patients. Can be used to find, contact, screen, and monitor.
In other words, the hospital staff and the actor, who had been cautious to the utmost extent in terms of data protection till now, can now breathe a sigh of relief.
But for people like the eye doctor who said a while back that they should take their eye picture to a hospital doctor because they are not allowed to send this image via email, This new policy seems a bit prudent.
So are we softening the data privacy policy because of this outbreak or are we allowing governments and corporations to seize their rights by making the emergency an excuse?
Former Portugal European Minister Bruno Miquez, who is now a writer and commentator, wrote in a shocking tweet that "the idea of privacy concerns in the fight against the virus is not only deadly, but also damaging." Can be reached and this is the 'limit' of this debate.
At the other end of it stand privacy advocates who apparently think that any kind of surveillance by people affected by the virus could put the detective state at risk.
We are also seeing this war being involved in the Connect - tracing app debate. Many European countries, including the UK, are thinking about this. Privacy was a key point in a press conference of the European scientists' consortium.
Hans Christian Boas, adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Entrepreneur of Artificial Intelligence, is one of the founders of the project.
He said that one of the motivating factors was to ask the question, can we really do some level of security by fully protecting privacy?
But some countries are not working very carefully. Russia's Social Monitoring App will appeal to citizens who have come to Cod-19 Positive to request their calls, location, camera, storage, network information and other data so that they can be checked somewhere Don't leave your home while you're away.
Authorities are looking at network data to monitor citizens in Quarantine, Taiwan. There was also an incident when a man's phone battery ran out and police arrived at his house within 45 minutes.
But perhaps the most extreme option is a software tool created by an Israeli spy equipment firm NSO Group. Accordingly, governments are asking mobile phone operators to give their users all the data they need about mobility.
When I asked a public health official in the UK, whether it would be possible to do so here, I realized on the phone that they were turning white. The team working on the app in the UK is very aware that if it has to persuade about 60% of the population to install it, then they will have to rely on it.
And to tell citizens that their government is monitoring their every move will take them away. But there is a problem. Ignoring some privacy concerns and bringing in faster apps and other technology solutions may mean that the restrictions on lockdown and daily life may be curtailed quickly.
In countries like the UK, which are more cautious about privacy, it is more likely that they will be slow to bring in contact-tracing technology. And that means they'll be in lockdown for longer.
So is the public ready to replace one form of freedom of privacy with another form of freedom to leave home and return to work? Like many other parts of our lives, the Corona virus is forcing us here to face difficult questions about our priorities.
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