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Privacy is best understood as a religion in the EU
But some are struggling to keep the faith
Privacy heathens are using all sorts of wanton methods to try and get a grip on Coronavirus. Will Europe be left behind?
Not necessarily. Privacy rules have pretty broad exemptions for tracking people, providing its proportionate and only used for the pandemic. A seatbelt rather than a handbrake as @EUstaran beautifully put it.
So the question moves from law to politics and society. Where do Europeans draw the line between health and privacy?
It's the first time that citizens have the choice and ultimately face the consequences. All rights are always a question of balance. Privacy is no exception.
Until now, privacy has been a pretty top-down affair. A huge deal in Brussels, but which fails to grab wider public imagination. Covid-19 may change that.
Brussels has a paranoid streak right now, when it comes to EU's place in world. It has been happy to junk other values for the sake of political survival (particularly during refugee crisis). Would EU's current conception of privacy be any different?
