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The COVID cyborg : Protecting data status
Galloway, Kathrine
Galloway, Kathrine
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Abstract
This article examines the increasing tendency towards governance of people through their representation via data. In its most contemporary iteration, the COVID-19 pandemic has seen the release of contact tracing apps – in Australia, COVIDSafe. While public discourse about the apps has focused principally on the important issue of data privacy, there are other possible effects whereby participation in such schemes might become a prerequisite to accessing services or basic rights – either from government or from corporations. The pathway to acceptability of applying our data in this way is already paved, through fitness monitors and other technologies by which we represent ourselves. This article sets out the foundation of such technologies and their application, before outlining their effect on the recognised boundaries of governance and the conception of the holder of rights and the substance of those rights.
Keywords
data, democracy, discrimination, human rights, public health law & policy
Date
2020
Type
Journal article
Journal
Book
Volume
45
Issue
3
Page Range
162-167
Article Number
ACU Department
Thomas More Law School
Faculty of Law and Business
Faculty of Law and Business
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Open Access Status
Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
License
All rights reserved
File Access
Open
Notes
© The Author(s) 2020.