Privacy Tracking Apps
Are COVID-19 tracking apps compliant with Italian law?
Experts are divided, even within the same task force which was established by the Italian Government, as far as I know.
On one hand, there are those who see the social “cost” of GPS as too high compared to the benefits.
On the other hand, a well-known innovator like Alfonso Fuggetta, also a member of the task force and among the first promoters of a coronavirus app in Italy.
The latter expressed his discontent about the matter on Twitter on April 12: "Those who say we shouldn't use GPS should think about these situations: a person who tests positive entering a nursing home, a school, or the emergency room." "So many people who speak just because they have a mouth and maybe go to their lover's house in a connected car," he continued.
Privacy lawyer Fulvio Sarzana is cautious about tracking apps: "Tracking apps can involve the use of Bluetooth or GPS. In both cases, a misunderstanding must be cleared up: the data processed and possibly sent to the entity responsible for managing the relevant database is personal data that cannot be defined as anonymous, but only pseudonymous.".
In other words, from that data it is still possible to trace a person, their contacts, and their movements, and this justifies the application of privacy regulations. This is even more true if the data being processed is GPS location data.
Therefore, it is not possible to speak of anonymity or anonymization, and the regulations regarding the processing of personal data must always be applied.
Privacy Tracking Apps
The question, therefore, is perhaps not so much whether GPS is suitable or not, but rather the safeguards (regulatory, policy, and security) that we will apply to the entire tracking system, whatever technology is used.
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