Abhinav Sahay reports on developments involving Aarogya Setu, an app that the Indian government is requiring to help track and contain COVID-19. The app has raised a number of issued about dystopian surveillance and privacy. Sahay reports: The app’s formal induction as a containment tool was completed on May 1, when the government made its…
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Philippines NPC Investigating COVID-19 Related Breaches
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On April 25, 2020, the Philippines National Privacy Commission (“NPC”) issued a statement that it is investigating several breach notifications it has received relating to the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive personal information of confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients (the “Statement”). According to MLex, a communications officer for the NPC has confirmed that…
Texas Still Won’t Say Which Nursing Homes Have COVID-19 Cases. Families Are Demanding Answers.
by Lomi Kriel, Vianna Davila, ProPublica, and Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune. This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. As elderly and vulnerable citizens continue to die from COVID-19 in closed-off long-term…
Science, Statistics, and the Privacy Implications of Reopening the Economy
Christopher W. Savage of Davis Wright Tremaine writes: “Privacy, Unmasked” is a multi-part series that explores the impact of COVID-19 on individual privacy rights and privacy and security regulation and enforcement. New blogs will be posted in this space on Tuesdays. States and cities around the country, hopeful that the worst of COVID-19 will soon…