Should we be worried that the state will use mobile phones to trace us during the Covid-19 pandemic?

Should we be worried that the state will use mobile phones to trace us during the Covid-19 pandemic? asks Lucien Pierce

Its European Data Protection Board said the following regarding using technology to fight Covid-19: “It is in the interest of humanity to curb the spread of diseases and to use modern techniques in the fight against scourges affecting great parts of the world ... Therefore, a number of considerations should be taken into account to guarantee the lawful processing of personal data.

On March 26, it published directions – a sort of lesser law – that oblige telecommunications service providers such as MTN, Vodacom and Cell C to provide assistance with the tracking and tracing of people. The EDPB concludes by saying that it is important that measures that are implemented to manage emergencies such as the Covid-19, and the decisions on which the measures are based, should be appropriately documented.

In dire circumstances such as these, even the most ardent proponent of privacy rights will concede that the appropriate use of location data to combat Covid-19 is justified.

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