突发公共卫生事件中位置数据的披露:基于健康权和隐私权的视角

位置数据披露在防控新冠病毒(COVID-19)等传染病期间在国家、公共卫生机构及个人层面具有三重价值、成效显赫;但也暴露出健康权与隐私权之间的内在张力.全球范围内存在三种位置数据披露模式:一是模糊地理数据披露模式,即向所有公众公开仅涉及概括性、脱敏性的位置数据信息;二是对特定人群信息披露模式,针对可能的密切接触者等特定...

See-saw Balance of Location Data Disclosure under Public Health Emergency:Right to Health and Right to Privacy

Location data disclosure,which has three-level significant values for control and prevention of COVID-19,has achieved great success,while it triggers the internal tension between the public health rights and individ-ual privacy rights.By using comparative analysis,there are three different models for location data disclosure:(1)Geographic location data disclosure model;(2)Disclosure location data to special individual model;and(3)Indi-vidual location data disclosure model.Under those models,governments are enabled to balance location data dis-closure regarding the right to health and privacy;however,it is still a tough legal issue in the Information Age.To balance the right to health and privacy under public health emergencies,the following three steps can be consid-ered.First,public health shall be the primary goal under public health emergencies.Then,location data disclo-sure shall be evaluated in terms of the right to health;it is important to identify the scope of location data disclo-sure,which can only use by the government under public health emergency.Lastly,the legal requirements of us-ing location data need to be clarified and emphasize the data deletion period and the right to be forgotten after COVID-19.