McKinsey June 15, 2020
Daniel Mikkelsen, Henning Soller, and Malin Strandell-Jansson

How can European companies best prevent measures intended to control the COVID-19 pandemic from also undermining data privacy and security?

As the coronavirus pandemic takes its terrible toll, in both human life and livelihoods, governments, public-health authorities, companies, and individuals have responded with extraordinary measures. To protect the health of people, governments and institutions put in place restrictions on movement and mechanisms for health tracking and reporting. These mechanisms, including contact-tracing and self-reporting apps, some recording and transmitting personal health information, underscore the deepening importance of data protection and privacy in this crisis.

With the advent of the European General Data Protection...

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Topics: Cybersecurity, Health IT, Healthcare System, Patient / Consumer, Privacy / Security, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Technology
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