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COVID-19 Data Protection : resources

In the world:

Data Protection authorities

Global Privacy Assembly (GPA): compilation of resources

Civil society

Al sur coalition: Civil society from Latin America and the Caribbean demands to respect human rights when governments deploy digital technologies to fight against COVID-19.
Access Now: Recommendations on Privacy and Data Protection in the Fight against COVID-19
European Digital RIghts: EDRi calls for fundamental rights-based responses to COVID-19
Joint Civil Society Statement: States use of digital surveillance technologies to fight pandemic must respect human rights
In the Netherlands, 58 experts analyse short and long term challenges of intended tracking apps.
Access Now: Privacy and public health: the Dos and Don't for COVID-19 contact tracing apps
European Law Institure Principles for COVID-19 Crisis

Relevant instruments

The Council of Europe has developed a series of recommendations and guidelines that can help governments, authorities, employers, ... for their decision in the current circumstances.

  • Report “Digital solutions to fight COVID-19”
  • Statement by Alessandra Pierucci and Jean-Philippe Walter
  • Convention 108+ and explanatory report
  • Recommendation CM/Rec(2019)2 of the Committee of Ministers to member States regarding health-related data
  • Recommendation CM/Rec(2015)5 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the processing of personal data in the context of employment.
  • Guidelines on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data in a world of big data
  • Guidelines on artificial intelligence and data protection
  • Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the COVID-19 pandemic

Council of Europe work on COVID-19

Venice Commission: Reflexions on Respect for Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law during States of Emergency

AI and control of Covid-19 coronavirus

Media, freedom of expression and information in times of crisis

 Cybercrime and COVID-19

COVID-19: Human rights principles must guide health decisions

Statement from the Chair of the Parliamentary Assembly

COVID-19: ‘We are not forced to choose between health and privacy, we can have both’ says PACE rapporteur on Artificial Intelligence in healthcare

  Coronavirus: guidance to governments on respecting human rights, democracy and the rule of law

Commissioner calls for release of immigration detainees during Covid-19 crisis

  Secretary General writes to Viktor Orbán regarding COVID-19 state of emergency in Hungary

  COVID-19: Council of Europe anti-torture Committee issues “Statement of principles relating to the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty”

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