In combating COVID-19, it is “critical” to examine technological interventions against the benchmark of a balance between civil liberties and public interest, Rishi Wadhwa writes in this Privacy Perspectives piece. Wadhwa examines efforts underway in India to combat the virus, like contact tracing. “If we focus solely on individual freedoms and rights, then we run the risk of compromising the larger public interest of both life and livelihood and vice versa,” he writes.
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