EDPB Letter concerning the European Commission's draft Guidance on apps supporting the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic (Q4490)
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letter adopted by European Data Protection Board adopted concerning the European Commission's draft Guidance on apps supporting the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic
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EDPB Letter concerning the European Commission's draft Guidance on apps supporting the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic
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letter adopted by European Data Protection Board adopted concerning the European Commission's draft Guidance on apps supporting the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic
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The main function of such apps is to discover events (contacts with positive persons), which are only likely and for the majority of users may not even happen, especially in the de-escalation phase. Collecting an individual’s movements in the context of contact tracing apps would violate the principle of data minimisation.
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14 April 2020
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