It also brings serious practical and ethical concerns already playing out in some countries and risks putting health care against data protection. Though simple-sounding, such technology is far from straightforward.
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To lengthen the odds of a second infection wave, countries have been exploring how to harness technology to automate contact-tracing of those potentially infected with the virus, releasing the remainder of the population to go about daily life. But with a vaccine still 12-18 months off, governments around the world are weighing the apparent trade-off between easing restrictions and maintaining public health.
In the face of such dire prospects, for a relaxation of lockdown have grown increasingly vocal.
The IMF calculates the world economy will shrink by 7% in 2020, with trade levels sinking dramatically and national borrowing set to rise to levels not seen in peacetime. The global economic picture is equally bleak. In the UK alone, the wider human cost of this necessary measure has been staggering: two million routine NHS operations cancelled close to one million applications for universal credit benefit in the final two weeks of March and calls to a national domestic abuse helpline 49% above average. With more than one-third of the planet’s population currently under some form of COVID-19 related restriction, the wider impact of ‘lockdown’ is becoming apparent. © Pop Nukoonrat | Julian Hayes and Andrew Watson of the Data Protection team at BCL Solicitors consider if data protection has become another casualty of COVID-19
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