30 March 2020
The Austrian NGO None of Your Business looks at data protection law and location tracking apps being proposed in Europe.
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"In recent days, the discussions around the use of data to combat the corona pandemic have increased.
Therefore, we have written an ad hoc paper (PDF, English) on compliance with the GDPR and would like to take this opportunity to provide an initial overview of these projects.
...In an article on GDPRhub.eu, noyb has compiled a first overview of concrete apps and projects in Europe and beyond, in order to shed some light on this issue as well.
The vast majority of these approaches are far away from problematic forms of mass surveillance or “Chinese approaches”.
GDPR allows data to be used in the event of epidemics - the question is not if, but how."
EU: Data protection in times of coronavirus: not a question of if, but of how (NOYB, link)
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