Provide all data to Google and CDC.

This is the first article on privacy in the new Futuretens series pandemic.

I am a privacy lawyer and a professor of law. I went to a record warning the public Company favorite Google, Facebook, Or Amazon is taking too much data, especially sensitive data Health data.

Now, in this era of pandemic, we’re only sending one message to technology companies like Google and government agencies like Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Use my data for that purpose, and only for that purpose, if it helps resolve or mitigate the harm of this historic crisis for humanity.

More data is needed to fight the coronavirus-associated social illness, including loneliness from isolation. We use more technology and do more research. It all means collecting more data and exploiting more potential data. While you can influence this increase in data collection in ways that protect your privacy, Harm to privacyAnd no matter how hard we fight, there are villains who try to exploit this crisis.

This is why it is important that we address privacy in a pandemic in three ways: First, we must recognize that there is an active use of data. Second, we must continue to oppose companies and government officials who use this crisis as an excuse for unprecedented power. Finally, we need to shift our social understanding of privacy and keep pace with modern society. That way, we can continue to protect privacy in a way that is practical and beneficial to society.

We can use technology and data for public health and the public while protecting privacy during the pandemic era. Telecom company Considering whether to give around the world Consumer location information To the government, Track movement And virus spread-huge Risks to personal privacy With Government overshoot. Companies and grassroots groups are creating COVID-19 symptom trackers. Crowdsourcing Now pop-ups are developed by diagnostic triage tools, etc. Google And Amazon. Soon Home test kit It allows people to test themselves for new coronaviruses from home and frees up key healthcare resources. All of these technical solutions come with privacy risks. Privacy risks need to be protected, but they enable these innovations to thrive.

In addition to data-driven technologies that help mitigate the spread of the virus, there are technologies that can keep society alive during that time. Consumer products such as tablets and laptops are essential for remote work and education. Currently important are video products such as: Facebook portal, Home party,and zoom Even if you can’t travel or meet with family and friends, it can connect you. Even when it comes to using data, you need to support the public and private sectors to make the most of technology. However, the use of data must be restricted and protected.

You must carefully implement these technical solutions and protect your privacy as much as possible. Technically, medically, legally and Ethically-Collect and use data to help fight COVID-19 Maintain privacy protection. You may want to trade privacy to control the spread of the virus or to minimize harm to society. But after all this is over, we cannot replace the watch and regain the right to lost privacy. The data there is there, even if we erase From a machine learning system. The power gained by businesses and governments during this emergency is likely to be preserved After an emergency.

To protect privacy through this pandemic, we need to rethink privacy itself. You can no longer rely on an outdated understanding of privacy to protect your data from the public eye. The data can be used forever for this pandemic and for the future.

We need to go through a privacy notice and consent model. It is often not feasible in a world where all of us are constantly collecting data without our own knowledge, in order to independently inform and agree on standards for authorizing data collection and use. our Position data Already tracked by our devices, apps and mobile providers. Our face photos are collected by companies such as Clearview AI Used in face recognition algorithms. Records of our addresses, phone numbers and properties are already public, many of which are collected by Shadowwy Data broker. The focus should be on maintaining the value of privacy when data is already open to the public, since it prevents the data from being open to the public.

You need to modify existing laws and create new ones that reflect the new definition of privacy. Instead of seeking simple minimization of data collection, the focus can be on promoting other factors that protect privacy: data security, restrictions on data use and transfer, and individuals on how data is used. The rights of us and the means by which the data is used against us. The use of technical privacy solutions (differential privacy, encryption, on-device processing, etc.) and the non-essential and downstream use of data, restrictions on use, sale, and transfer of data must be emphasized . These technical protections prevent data from being used for us and allow honest actors to use our data for public health.

You also need protection against systematic harm associated with the use of data, such as the unchecked use of facial recognition by law enforcement. You also need to protect algorithmic accountability when using the algorithmic system to make key rights-related decisions (to some extent, Financial credit scoring). In addition, instead of focusing on first-party data collection and use, you can implement greater restrictions on data and downstream use of data aggregators that further exacerbate existing privacy harms. These solutions help protect us from third parties trying to use our data against us.

It is important to stay vigilant about privacy threats, but it is also necessary in technology and science to enable innovations that can save lives. You need to rethink what privacy is, and when it settles, you need to rebuild it with privacy laws that adapt to the realities of the modern, data-driven world. You do not need to choose between privacy and public health. We must fight for the right to have both.

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