Privacy And COVID-19 Contact Tracing ' Lessons From South Korea?

Published date18 May 2020
AuthorMr Colin Zick
Subject MatterPrivacy, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Privacy Protection, Reporting and Compliance
Law FirmFoley Hoag LLP

Very interesting discussion in the most recent Journal of the American Medical Association, "Information Technology-Based Tracing Strategy in Response to COVID-19 in South Korea-Privacy Controversies."

The sources of information are staggering in their breadth: mobile phone carriers, immigration services, law enforcement, credit card companies, public transit companies, government agencies, health insurers and health care providers. It is difficult to imagine this type of tracing in the United States.

The social ramifications of such close tracing were significant:

"The locations of infected individuals attracted extensive news coverage at times. For some cases, the general public engaged in profiling and unveiled or inferred embarrassing personal details...

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