Looking for something else to worry about in this time of quarantine? Here's to a discussion on the erosion of privacy in the face of a pandemic, possible privacy-preserving solutions being thought up for issues such as HIPAA and contact tracing, and looking at the possible long term consequences of reactive law enforcement.

Privacy-preserving mechanisms include the use of public-private key cryptography to have pseudonymity, where health care data can be decrypted at the source, but anonymized for other viewers.

Further reading:

https://www.bricker.com/industries-practices/hipaa-health-information-technology/insights-resources/publications/coronavirus-patient-privacy-implications https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/emergency-preparedness/notification-enforcement-discretion-telehealth/index.html https://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/news/2020/privacy-protecting-proximity-tracing-to-fight-corona.html https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=Projects_using_personal_data_to_combat_SARS-CoV-2 https://www.pepp-pt.org https://news.yahoo.com/eu-coalition-techies-backing-privacy-211626048.html?