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To Solve the Coronavirus Crisis: Click Here

In: The New Common

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  • Esther Keymolen

    (Tilburg Institute of Law, Technology and Society, Tilburg Law School)

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Human beings are technical beings. From the clothes we wear to the spaceships we fire into the sky, all these technologies are developed with the aim to protect ourselves, improve ourselves, and control the fickle world in which we live. Therefore, it should not come as a surprise that when hit with one of the biggest health crises of the last century, all over the world, governments have turned to technology to contain this life-threatening event. Most of these proposed—or already developed—technological solutions are data-driven. Just as the turn to technology to solve this crisis does not come as a surprise, neither does the protest it has caused. Critical citizens and civil rights organizations worry about the possibility of personal data being shared with private parties, about governments ending up using the collected information against citizens, and they fear an overall loss of privacy and freedom if these applications became widely used. Overall, they suspect that what is introduced as a temporary instrument to counter this crisis will have long-lasting effects on society.

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  • Esther Keymolen, 2021. "To Solve the Coronavirus Crisis: Click Here," Springer Books, in: Emile Aarts & Hein Fleuren & Margriet Sitskoorn & Ton Wilthagen (ed.), The New Common, chapter 18, pages 125-129, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-65355-2_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-65355-2_18
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