GPA COVID-19 taskforce: Compendium of best practices in response to COVID-19

Governments and public authorities have been taking a number of measures to contain the spread of the disease, such as track and trace measures to map out infections, lock down measures (including across borders), and implementing a variety of social distancing rules aimed at reducing close social interaction, including ‘work from home’ schemes. The implementation of these measures resulted in having an impact at economic level while track and trace efforts, including through digital solutions, and the increased use of platforms for remote working and learning translated into higher privacy risks for individuals’ personal data.