UN FRAMEWORK PER IL CONTACT TRACING IN ITALIA TRA ESIGENZE SCIENTIFICHE, POSSIBILITÀ TECNOLOGICHE E RISPETTO DI DIRITTI E LIBERTÀ INDIVIDUALI IN TERMINI DI DATA PROTECTION

Sergio Guida

Abstract


On March 11 the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Among  quarantines and disruptions to public events, this also kick-started the expedited development of therapeutics and vaccines, but in the short time contact tracing, followed by treatment or isolation, is a key control measure.

A simple relationship was found between the efficiency necessary for eradication and the basic reproductive ratio of the disease, but being it a matter of controlling people and their movements, the extent and the ways in which controls can be implemented can also prove to be very invasive. So, various approaches and technological configurations have been developed as long as, depending on the use of geo-location and the methods and times of data storage, solutions that respect human rights and "privacy-preserving" have been identified, as indicated by the European Authorities, too.

Any solution should take care of its ethical implications, and be flexible enough to be improved rapidly, to rectify potential shortcomings and to avoid ‘surveillance creep’. Last but not least, it must be designed to support full interoperability within the EU.


Keywords


pandemic; multipronged approach; spatial epidemiology; contact tracing; scope creep; cartography; public monitoring; geo-location; data protection by design; proportionality; electronic patient diary; privacy-preserving proximity tracing, function creep

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