{"id":9052,"date":"2020-06-08T10:17:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T10:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/ngos-in-9-eu-countries-request-information-and-impact-analyses-of-covid-19-tracing-apps\/"},"modified":"2022-12-18T09:53:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T09:53:44","slug":"ngos-in-9-eu-countries-request-information-and-impact-analyses-of-covid-19-tracing-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/ngos-in-9-eu-countries-request-information-and-impact-analyses-of-covid-19-tracing-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"NGOs in 9 EU Countries Request Information and Impact Analyses of Covid-19 Tracing Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>08 June 2020, Berlin \u2013 Human rights organizations in nine EU countries, members of the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) network, are simultaneously filing freedom of information requests to their national authorities regarding the new contact-tracing, symptom-tracking and quarantine-enforcing applications introduced to control the spread of Covid-19.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The initiative, the first of its kind, aims to ensure that EU governments are not processing more personal data than what is necessary to protect public health, and that they pay appropriate attention to\u00a0 minimizing the risk of\u00a0 data leakage and other privacy breaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the aim of saving lives and livelihoods is without doubt salutary, the path of mass surveillance is quite possibly unnecessary and surely dangerous to take. Human rights organisations need to make sure that European governments take their responsibility to prepare impact assessments seriously and no European government uses the pandemic as a pretext for normalizing the expanded use of invasive digital surveillance technologies\u201d, said Orsolya Reich, senior advocacy officer at Liberties.<\/p>\n<p>Liberties expects to receive quality information from some EU member states showing the introduction of proportionate measures and due consideration of the GDPR when introducing technologies used to control the pandemic. Such cases will be used to strengthen the argument that lawful conduct is possible during the pandemic. Where member states fail to provide all public data related to the applications, or data protection regulations are breached, Liberties\u2019 members will start litigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiberties\u2019 aim is to reverse the increased level of surveillance. We believe that contact-tracing, symptom-tracking and quarantine-enforcing applications should only be used if evidence shows that they are effective, for the set purposes, on a voluntarily basis. The principles set out in the GDPR should be followed. Without unsurveilled public and private spheres, no democracy can flourish\u201d, said Eva Simon, senior advocacy officer at Liberties.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative is calling the attention of governments and the general public to the fact that human rights are important safeguards during emergency situations, such as this pandemic. They ensure public trust \u2013 a precondition for any successful social coordination \u2013 and ultimately protect public health.<\/p>\n<p>The countries joining the initiative include Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>For more details about the initiative, please contact:<br \/>\n<strong>Orsolya Reich <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Senior Advocacy Officer\u2013 Liberties<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:o.reich@liberties.eu\">o.reich@liberties.eu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) is a non-governmental organization protecting and promoting the civil liberties of everyone in the European Union (EU). Headquartered in Berlin, with a presence in Brussels, Liberties is built on a network of national civil liberties NGOs from across Europe. Currently, we have member organizations in Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Spain, Slovenia, the Netherlands and associated partners in Germany and Sweden. Our aim is to ensure the full implementation of human rights in the EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08 June 2020, Berlin \u2013 Human rights organizations in nine EU countries, members of the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) network, are simultaneously filing freedom of information requests to their national authorities regarding the new contact-tracing, symptom-tracking and quarantine-enforcing applications introduced to control the spread of Covid-19. &nbsp; The initiative, the first of its &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/ngos-in-9-eu-countries-request-information-and-impact-analyses-of-covid-19-tracing-apps\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NGOs in 9 EU Countries Request Information and Impact Analyses of Covid-19 Tracing Apps<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":10032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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