As countries grapple with the global threat of COVID-19, some are leveraging user location data and tracking apps to model potential contamination paths. China has tapped into its facial recognition tools to track the virus and has deployed drones that tell people to wear masks. Singapore has launched an app called TraceTogether which uses Bluetooth to determine who could be at risk of infection. And the United Kingdom is reportedly in talks with telecom providers on how to best use location data to stem the crisis.<\/p>\n
But the coronavirus turning the world upside down does not mean companies can throw out the General Data Protection Regulation and the\u00a0California Consumer Privacy Act<\/a>, as well as other\u00a0privacy protections<\/a>. Here\u2019s how law experts and companies can comply with existing legal standards and new norms set by the pandemic.<\/p>\n Sandra Jeskie<\/a>, Duane Morris\u2019 team lead for the\u00a0technology, media and telecom<\/a>\u00a0industry group, said in an email that businesses under GDPR or CCPA still have to comply with the laws unless the information they are sharing is anonymized or de-identified.<\/p>\n To read more of Ms. Jeskie’s comments from thsi article, please visit the Duane Morris website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As countries grapple with the global threat of COVID-19, some are leveraging user location data and tracking apps to model potential contamination paths. China has tapped into its facial recognition tools to track the virus and has deployed drones that tell people to wear masks. Singapore has launched an app called TraceTogether which uses Bluetooth … <\/p>\n Continue reading “How to Heed Privacy Law in the Midst of a Pandemic”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[151,247,93,980,246,49,987],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-california","tag-ccpa","tag-data-security","tag-fashion-retail-and-consumer-branded-products","tag-gdpr","tag-privacy","tag-technology-media-and-telecom"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}