“The COVID-19 pandemic has boosted personal data mining. Various experiences in fighting the new coronavirus focus strictly on extensive data processing concerning not only health conditions, but also behaviours and relationships, allegedly to try to control the spread of the virus at any cost. Several approaches have been put forward by different government. In China, the government has been widely using body temperature, geolocation and user behaviour data to monitor the spread of the infection and commitment to quarantine, and scientists in the USA are processing global scale data to find vaccines for the virus. Stakeholders in Brazil have been trying to follow similar approaches …” (more)
Thiago Guimarães Moraes, Amanda Nunes Lopes Espiñeira Lemos, Alexandra Krastins Lopes, Camille Moura and José Renato Laranjeira de Pereira, ‘Open data on the COVID-19 pandemic: anonymisation as a technical solution for transparency, privacy, and data protection’, International Data Privacy Law, volume 11, issue 1, February 2021, pages 32-47, https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipaa025. Published: 22 April 2021.
First posted 2021-05-17 08:00:02
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