Fundamental rights & COVID 19
Dates:
- Fri 26 Jun 2020 14.00 - 15.00
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2020-06-26 14:00
2020-06-26 15:00
Europe/Paris
Fundamental rights & COVID 19
In the aftermath of COVID-19, national governments are studying solutions to limit the concentration of individuals in a single place, by thus preserving a certain degree of ‘social-distancing’ even after the end of the initial coronavirus lockdown. In particular, a number of governments are developing new mobile phone apps to monitor the movements of individuals. Such apps would collect a large amount of personal data, relied by algorithms to develop predictive models to limit the concentration of individuals in a single place. Although such instruments may be justified by public health considerations, they might allow State authorities to monitor the movements of millions of individuals, by thus representing a potential breach of the privacy of the EU citizens. The webinar aims at discussing whether and to what extent the measures that national governments intend adopting to contain a new spread of COVID-19 might breach fundamental rights of the EU citizens, and in particular breaching EU data protection rules.
Chairman: Mario Viola de Azevedo Cuhna | EUI
Speakers:
Paolo Boldi | University of Milan
Deirdre Curtin | EUI
Wojciech Wiewiórowski | European Data Protection Supervisor
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In the aftermath of COVID-19, national governments are studying solutions to limit the concentration of individuals in a single place, by thus preserving a certain degree of ‘social-distancing’ even after the end of the initial coronavirus lockdown. In particular, a number of governments are developing new mobile phone apps to monitor the movements of individuals. Such apps would collect a large amount of personal data, relied by algorithms to develop predictive models to limit the concentration of individuals in a single place. Although such instruments may be justified by public health considerations, they might allow State authorities to monitor the movements of millions of individuals, by thus representing a potential breach of the privacy of the EU citizens. The webinar aims at discussing whether and to what extent the measures that national governments intend adopting to contain a new spread of COVID-19 might breach fundamental rights of the EU citizens, and in particular breaching EU data protection rules.
Chairman: Mario Viola de Azevedo Cuhna | EUI
Speakers:
Paolo Boldi | University of Milan
Deirdre Curtin | EUI
Wojciech Wiewiórowski | European Data Protection Supervisor
- Location:
- Outside EUI premises -
- Affiliation:
- Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
- Type:
- Online Debate
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