Data protection in times of coronavirus: not a question of if, but of how

In recent days, the discussions around the use of data to combat the corona pandemic have increased. Therefore, we have written an ad hoc paper v0.3 (PDF, English) on compliance with the GDPR and would like to take this opportunity to provide an initial overview of these projects. Overview of various measures and projects There is a lot of talk about various corona measures and projects that are intended to contain the spread of the virus by using data. These include, for example: Information portals (such as information for self-diagnosis or maps of risk areas), anonymous data analytics (especially from mobile phone networks), apps that attempt to record possible infection situations (contact tracing), apps to check quarantine measures attempts to track infected persons via various data such as mobile phone tracking or the use of credit card data. In an article on GDPRhub.eu, noyb has compiled a first overview of concrete apps and projects in Europe and beyond, in order to shed some l