Emerging Themes from the “Global Responses to COVID-19” Symposium
The negotiation of difference and its implications for freedoms and entitlements is the central legitimacy challenge in modern democracies.
Data Privacy
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Read more: General Quarantine, Social Emergency, and Economic Crisis: COVID-19 in Colombia General Quarantine, Social Emergency, and Economic Crisis: COVID-19 in Colombia
While the mandatory isolation orders are quite broad, there are concerns about the effectiveness of the quarantine.
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Read more: Kenya’s Growing Anti-Rights Public Health Agenda During COVID-19 Kenya’s Growing Anti-Rights Public Health Agenda During COVID-19
Kenya’s government has acted to address the pandemic through a number of measures that have also significantly curtailed constitutionally guaranteed rights.
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Read more: COVID-19 and the State of Alarm vis-à-vis Human Rights in Spain COVID-19 and the State of Alarm vis-à-vis Human Rights in Spain
As of May 20, 2020, Spain had the second highest per capita rate of COVID-19 deaths in the world, with 59.5 deaths per 100,000.
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Read more: Germany’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Germany’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Testing, quarantine and contact tracing were employed to detect and prevent further transmission of the virus. Breach of orders was criminally punishable.
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Read more: Community Organizations Can Reduce the Privacy Impacts of Surveillance During COVID-19 Community Organizations Can Reduce the Privacy Impacts of Surveillance During COVID-19
Until there is a vaccine or treatment for COVID-19, our economy and privacy will be at the mercy of imperfect technology used in the pandemic response.
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Read more: Why ‘Mandatory Privacy-Preserving Digital Contact Tracing’ is the Ethical Measure Against COVID-19 Why ‘Mandatory Privacy-Preserving Digital Contact Tracing’ is the Ethical Measure Against COVID-19
Even if counterintuitive, mandatory private-by-design digital contact tracing is the only ethical option for fighting COVID-19.
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Read more: Anonymity in the Time of a Pandemic: Privacy vs. Transparency Anonymity in the Time of a Pandemic: Privacy vs. Transparency
By Cansu Canca As coronavirus cases increase worldwide, institutions keep their communities informed with frequent updates—but only up to a point. They share minimal information such as number of cases, but omit the names of individuals and identifying information. Many institutions are legally obligated to protect individual privacy, but is this prohibition of transparency ethically…
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Read more: More perils of U.S. sectoral privacy law More perils of U.S. sectoral privacy law
By Leslie Francis A recent unpublished decision of the Minnesota Court of Appeals brings the perils of sectoral privacy law into sharp focus: Furlow v. Madonna Summit of Byron, 2020 WL 413356 (Minn. App. 2020) (unpublished). Minnesota protects patient health records but not, apparently, photographs of patients posted on social media by health care facility…
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Read more: Patient-Directed Uses vs. The Platform Patient-Directed Uses vs. The Platform
By Adrian Gropper, MD This post originally appeared on The Health Care Blog. This piece is part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? Privacy? Both?” which explores whether it’s possible to advance interoperability while maintaining privacy. Check out other pieces in the series here. It’s 2023. Alice, a patient at Ascension Seton Medical…
