TY - GEN
T1 - Security and Privacy Issues Associated with Coronavirus Diagnosis and Prognosis
AU - Bentotahewa, Vibhushinie
AU - Hewage, Chaminda
AU - Williams, Jason
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.
PY - 2021/5/22
Y1 - 2021/5/22
N2 - The urgency of the need to manage and find a cure for the COVID-19 has made it necessary to share information. However, sharing information involves potential risks that are inevitably likely to infringe individual privacy. Therefore, whether permissible under extenuation circumstances or not, sharing and handling of information for medical diagnosis and prognosis need consideration without ignoring the need to protect privacy. This makes it important to strike a balance between protecting individual privacy and collecting information to combat the virus, the responsibility for doing so rests with the state. However, circumstances in which the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be accelerating, the medical professionals and the government seem to be focusing more on collecting information that could be used to limit the extent of the outbreak and mitigate the risks. Such a strategy overrides perception of the need to protect personal privacy. This paper discusses the security and privacy challenges associated with SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis and prognosis using case studies from different countries.
AB - The urgency of the need to manage and find a cure for the COVID-19 has made it necessary to share information. However, sharing information involves potential risks that are inevitably likely to infringe individual privacy. Therefore, whether permissible under extenuation circumstances or not, sharing and handling of information for medical diagnosis and prognosis need consideration without ignoring the need to protect privacy. This makes it important to strike a balance between protecting individual privacy and collecting information to combat the virus, the responsibility for doing so rests with the state. However, circumstances in which the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be accelerating, the medical professionals and the government seem to be focusing more on collecting information that could be used to limit the extent of the outbreak and mitigate the risks. Such a strategy overrides perception of the need to protect personal privacy. This paper discusses the security and privacy challenges associated with SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis and prognosis using case studies from different countries.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Coronavirus diagnosis
KW - Data protection
KW - General data protection regulation
KW - Privacy
KW - Security
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111108957&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-76063-2_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-76063-2_8
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85111108957
SN - 9783030760625
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
SP - 108
EP - 116
BT - Science and Technologies for Smart Cities - 6th EAI International Conference, SmartCity360°, Proceedings
A2 - Paiva, Sara
A2 - Lopes, Sérgio Ivan
A2 - Zitouni, Rafik
A2 - Gupta, Nishu
A2 - Lopes, Sérgio F.
A2 - Yonezawa, Takuro
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 6th EAI International Conference on Science and Technologies for Smart Cities, SmartCity 2020
Y2 - 2 December 2020 through 4 December 2020
ER -