Technologien

Formelle Bemerkungen des EDSB zum Entwurf einer Durchführungsverordnung der Kommission zur Festlegung technischer Spezifikationen und Verfahren für das durch die Richtlinie (EU) 2017/1132 des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates festgelegte System der Registervernetzung

Kommentare des EDSB zum Entwurf des Durchführungsbeschlusses der Kommission zur Änderung des Durchführungsbeschlusses 2019/1765 der Kommission hinsichtlich des grenzüberschreitenden Datenaustauschs zwischen nationalen mobilen Kontaktnachverfolgungs- und Warn-Apps im Zusammenhang mit der Bekämpfung der COVID-19-Pandemie

Joint paper of the Spanish data protection authority, Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) on 14 misunderstandings with regard to biometric identification and authentication.

The use of biometric data for identification and authentication purposes is not new but has greatly increased in recent years. Along with its growing popularity, unfortunately, some misconceptions about the technologies involved have become widespread. 
The objective of this document is to raise awareness about some misunderstandings about biometric technologies, and to motivate its readers to check assertions about the technology, rather than accepting them without verification. 

In public health, contact tracing is the process to identify individuals who have been in contact with infected persons. Proximity tracing with smartphone applications and sensors could support contact tracing. It involves processing of sensitive personal data.
What is Contact Tracing?

During epidemics of infectious diseases, such as the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), it is important to lower the number of new infection cases and to stop it eventually. Therefore the infection chain of onward transmissions must be interrupted. When those persons known to be infected reveal their recent contacts, other infected persons may be identified, informed and e.g. isolated already early on, even before they become aware of their infection. The process to identify contacts of known cases is called contact tracing.
A person becomes a contact of a primary case by e.g. face-to-face contact within a short distance over some time span, physical contact or spending time indoors together–all within the incubation period of e.g. up to 2 weeks for the coronavirus disease.

To establish the risk exposure in contact tracing, information about the distance between the persons and the duration of contact are important. Close contacts with high-risk exposure may then become subject to different rules or treatments.

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