The Ethics Committee has advised the government to draft up a detailed analysis of the technical and judicial motives behind such tracing method.
Drawing a clear line is very important in this case: tracking should remain voluntary, transparent, minimalist, and limited to a certain period of time. The clear goals and methods of the app should be communicated with its users.
Further, sceptical residents may not want to even install the app in the first place, but such tracking cannot be forced upon an individual, the Ethics Committee concludes.
Users should also be able to delete their personal information at all times and deactivate the app should they wish to do so. An extension to the tracing period would require the user’s authorisation.
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Personal data could be saved on a central data storage, but the information should be strictly limited to ensure a user cannot be identified.
The formation of an external committee is also suggested, which would include specialists in the field of IT, health, data privacy and ethics.
The exchange of data should be limited to EU Member States, the Ethics Committee states.
