Giving out patient details in South Korea: Serving public good or invasion of privacy

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In highly connected South Korea, people know immediately when a new coronavirus case emerges in their neighbourhood. A government alert, accompanied by a shrill emergency alarm, will pop up on their mobile phones, giving details such as the new patient's age, gender and travel history.

concerns have been raised about the infringement of privacy, stigmatisation and doxxing as patient data is scrutinised and dissected.

invokes the Infectious Diseases Act to do contact tracing using cellphone records, the Global Positioning System, credit card use and closed-circuit television camera footage

two infected members of the same church in Busan were accused of having an extramarital affair after their travel history revealed that they spent a night in the same condominium resort on Feb 21.

Singapore: Disease investigators work tirelessly with the police to map out a patient's travel history, using all kinds of resources, from surveillance footage to mobile phone data and ATM records. Information such as patients' age, gender, nationality, the street where they live, and the places they visited, are then released by the Health Ministry in a bid to curb the spread and keep the public safe.

China: QR codes must be scanned before people can enter residential compounds, mobile phone apps record your daily temperature, while other apps show if there are cases nearby or if patients have been in close proximity.

Qns:

1. To what extent can the regulation of scientific or technological developments be justified? (Cam. 2014)

2. To what extent has technology had an impact on both privacy and security in your country? (Cam. 2009)