Pandemic response – recommended reading

Some useful articles about civil liberties during a pandemic. Last updated 7 May 2020.

Civil Liberties

Coronavirus Tech Handbook – Law & Justice Resources for Law, Lawyers, Courts, Justice System

Brussels Privacy Hub: data-protection-law-and-the-covid-19-outbreak

Privacy Foundation NZ:

• resources
• Contact Tracing
• The Lockdown: A Human Rights Perspective

Privacy International

• Tracking the Global Response to COVID-19
• Extraordinary powers need extraordinary protections

Liberty UK – New Law is biggest restriction on our freedom in a generation

NZ Council for Civil Liberties – Civil liberties during a pandemic

Articles:

Pandemic Tracking

Applications

• COVID Watch as developed by a Stanford Uni group.
• TraceTogether as used in Singapore.
• Australian Modified version of TraceTogether By V Teague, Thinking Cybersecurity Pty Ltd

Articles about Tracking

• Barraclough, Tom. Medium. 31/3/20 New Zealand needs to talk about using private data to combat covid-19. and 1/4/2020 follow-up.
• Coldicutt, Rachel. Medium. 23/3/20. Open Letter: Contact Tracking and NHSX
• Chen, Andrew. 1/4/20.The trade-offs for digital data and contact tracing
• McDonald, Sean. The New Humanitarian. 30/3/20 No We Don’t Need an App For This
• Wagner, Adam. New Statesman. 31/3/20 In a new age of emergency laws, human rights are more important than ever
• Soltani, Askan. The Brookings Institution. 27/4/20 Contact-tracing apps are not a solution to the COVID-19 crisis