Who owns your COVID-19 contact tracing data?
August 27, 2020

Who owns your COVID-19 contact tracing data?

Do you know who is using your data?

Contact tracing is one of the most popular techniques used for fighting the spread of COVID-19. Some countries have developed apps that help scale it, but do we know what's being done with all the personal data collected?

First step is thinking who's behind the application, or who manages it. Is it a private company or a public institution? How do they store the data? Who owns it? We've started answering these questions by looking who's behind the most popular contact tracing apps around the world.

The interactive map below can help you with that.

Digital Person Symposium - Digital Identity in Humanities

Proximity-sensing apps were initially touted as a heaven-sent tool for managing the pandemic and its aftermath. They definitely had a role to play in this -- but only as an augmentation of traditional labour-intensive methods of testing, tracing and isolating.
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Growth and the Data Economy

The new data economy’s growth by countries
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GDPR now covers 17.7% of global data transaction, down 4 points since 2010

GDPR, the law protecting personal data within the European Economic Area (EEA), now covers 18% of global data transactions, down from 22% in 2010.
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