The corona crisis, data protection and tracking apps in the EU: the Czech and Austrian COVID-19 mobile phone apps in the battle against the virus
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Title
The corona crisis, data protection and tracking apps in the EU: the Czech and Austrian COVID-19 mobile phone apps in the battle against the virus
Subject
geo-location tracking apps
COVID-19
data protection
data surveillance
liberal standards
Czech Republic
Austria
Description
The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 put governments under pressure toswiftly introduce measures to protect citizens and react appropriately to theemerging threat. This paper focuses on geo-location tracking mobile phoneapplications developed in the Czech Republic and Austria to monitorpersonal movement of those positively tested for COVID-19 to prevent thefurther spread of the disease. The aim of the analysis is to answer thequestion of whether the appsʼ functionalities complied with the EU dataprotection standards and to what extent the citizensʼ right to control thecollection, evaluation and preservation of their personal data has beenviolated. Both countries belonged to the pioneers in COVID-19 apps. Whilethey differed in several areas such as the legal and political circumstancesunder which the apps were developed and public communication,similarities between them were identified in the area of public trust in theapps and their utilisation. In both countries, certain illiberal issues wererecognised as well.
Creator
Stehlíková, Jana
Source
Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 56 No. 1 (2021); 35-67
2788-2993
2788-2985
Publisher
Institute of International Relations Prague
Date
2021-03-01
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Relation
Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Research Articles
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Collection
Citation
Stehlíková, Jana, The corona crisis, data protection and tracking apps in the EU: the Czech and Austrian COVID-19 mobile phone apps in the battle against the virus, Institute of International Relations Prague, 2021, accessed November 6, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/3521