Maximizing data privacy should be on every organization’s priority list. We all know how important it is to keep data and applications secure, but what happens when access to private data is needed to save lives? Should privacy be sacrificed? Does it need to be?
Consider the case of contact tracing, which has become a key tool in the fight to control COVID-19. It’s a daunting task greatly facilitated by collecting and analyzing real-time identity and geo-location data gathered from mobile devices—sometimes voluntarily and sometimes not.
In most societies, such as the United States and the European Union, the use of location and proximity data by governments may be strictly regulated or even forbidden—implicitly impeding the ability to efficiently contain the spread of the virus. Where public health has been prioritized over dat ..
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