April 27, 2020

Elizabeth Denham notes that the public need to have confidence that any new technology is being used in a fair and proportionate way. Accordingly, the ICO has put together a series of questions that those using new technologies to contact trace and location track might ask themselves in order to ensure that the privacy implications are properly considered, and that they do not put public trust and social licence at risk:

1. Have you demonstrated how privacy is built in to the processor technology?
2. Is the planned collection and use of personal data necessary and proportionate?
3. What control do users have over their data and can they exercise their rights?
4. How much data needs to be gathered and processed centrally?
5. What happens when the processing is no longer necessary?

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