Open AccessIntroduction: Privacy and Pandemics
Author(s) -
Mark J. Taylor,
Megan Richardson,
Stacey Steele
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
law, technology and humans
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2652-4074
DOI - 10.5204/lthj.1924
Subject(s) - pandemic , government (linguistics) , covid-19 , information privacy , privacy law , internet privacy , right to privacy , set (abstract data type) , political science , privacy protection , privacy policy , law , computer science , medicine , virology , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , programming language
This set of articles in this special issue illustrate a number of ways that the realities of a global pandemic may challenge different perspectives on privacy protection and the appropriate relationship with other rights and responsibilities. They arose from a virtual roundtable, held on 15 June 2020 at Melbourne Law School, under the aegis of the Privacy and Pandemics Information Network. The network was formed as a rapid response to the overwhelming number of privacy issues being raised almost simultaneously by, or as a result of, the various government and private actor attempts to deal with COVID-19 in Australia and around the world.