Privacy and Security Challenges of Emerging Big Data Applications in the era of COVID-19
The urgency of the need to manage and find cures for the COVID-19 pandemic has made it necessary to share information in large volumes between national and international organizations (e.g., virus and treatment data, contact tracing, multimedia data generated by telepresence applications such as Zoom, Teams, etc.). The sharing of information will lead to the transfer of big data, which inevitably will infringe on individual privacy.
Early Signs of Pending Pandemic
One of the longer-term responses to the COVID-19 crisis will be the creation of a series of risk assessment tools that allow early warnings about the pending outbreak of a pandemic. Some of these tools will use health-related parameters, such as body temperature. Others will be based on people’s subjective self-assessments, including headache, muscle pain, difficulty with breathing, etc.