Slides supporting the collaborative online event discussing Ireland’s technical response to COVID-19, organised on the 25 June 2020 by the Digital Repository of Ireland, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and Coffee & Circumvention

1. COVID-19 and Contact Tracing
Apps - What Should Ireland Do?
A collaborative event to discuss Ireland’s technical response to COVID-19 organised by the Irish Council
for Civil Liberties, the Digital Repository of Ireland and Coffee & Circumvention

2. Speakers
❏ Carly Kind - Ada Lovelace Institute @carlykind_
❏ Rob Kitchin - Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute @RobKitchin
❏ Arthit Suriyawongkul - Thai Netizen Network / Trinity College Dublin @bact
❏ Elizabeth Farries - Irish Council for Civil Liberties @e_farries
Chair: Aileen O’Carroll, Digital Repository of Ireland @aaocarroll
❏ Join the conversation on Twitter #COVID19Apps
@dri_Ireland @ICCLtweet @MU_SSI

6. Using surveillance technologies to tackle the
spread of COVID-19
• Tracking of location and movement
• Smartphone apps
• facial recognition and thermal cameras
• biometric wearables
• smart helmets
• drones
• predictive analytics
• Used for:
• contact tracing
• quarantine enforcement
• travel permission
• social distancing/movement monitoring
• symptom tracking
• Raise a number of ethical questions concerning deployment
• Do we want civil liberties or public health, or civil liberties and public health?
• Are these mutually exclusive, or the latter forfeited in a pandemic?
• Kitchin, R. (2020, online first) Civil liberties or public health, or civil liberties and public health? Using
surveillance technologies to tackle the spread of COVID-19. Space and Polity

7. Technical/practical
Ethics how tech works
Civil liberties and citizenship
Ethics of what the tech does
Surveillance capitalism
Ethics of what the tech facilitates
· Technological solutionism
· Robust, domain-informed design
· Pilot testing and quality assurance
· Fit-for-purpose
· Rule-set and parameters
· Fragmented data sources
· Data coverage and resolution
· Representativeness and digital
divides
· Data quality, reliability and false
positives
· Duping and spoofing
· Dependent on effective virus testing
and certification
· Contact tracing dependent on 60%
participation
· Quarantining/movement permissions
can require additional infrastructure
· Firm legal basis
· Proof more effective than traditional
contact tracing
· Individual rights vs public good
· Privacy, data leakage, re-
identification
· Data minimization and consent
· Governmentality
· Social/spatial sorting, redlining
· Population profiling
· Control creep
· Normalization
· Authoritarianism
· Due process, oversight, redress
· State record on dataveillance
· Public trust and chilling effects
· State-sanction surveillance
capitalism
· New market opportunities
· Gateway to public health and other
state data
· Deepening data shadows
· Enrolment of new smartphone
owners
· Covidwashing of activities
· Increasing shareholder value and
profit

8. 1. Clear limited purpose
2. Necessary & proportionate
3. Effective
4. Transparency
5. Statutory oversight
6. Timely data deletion
7. Privacy by design
8. Sunset clause
9. Broad range of actors and
engagement
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10. THANK YOU!
If you’d like to follow up on the discussion, you can contact:
Digital Repository of Ireland https://www.dri.ie/ dri@ria.ie
Irish Council for Civil Liberties https://www.iccl.ie/ info@iccl.ie
Aileen O’Carroll aileen.ocarroll@mu.ie @aaocarroll