Pandemics and the Protection of Privacy and Personal Information: Issues concerning the Restriction on the Right to Privacy in Emergencies

This article focuses on issues which need to be considered in aiming to ensure both the effectiveness of infectious disease control measures and the protection of the right to privacy from the following perspectives. (1) Issues regarding the restriction of the right to privacy in emergency situations, including (i) the types of measures taken in emergency situations and issues with respect to the restriction of the right to privacy in emergency situations, (ii) the normalisation, constancy and fixation of exceptional measures in emergency situations, (iii) dual-use and use for purposes different from those originally intended, (iv) acquisition of secondary information and the emergence of unexpected situations (e.g. the applicability of body temperature to special care-required personal information and the acquisition of secondary information associated with the measurement of body temperature, and examples of mission creep); and (5) the need to respond to over-reaction without recognising the urgency of the situation. (2) Issues concerning privacy in countermeasures against infectious diseases, including (i) the procedures for requesting and disclosing personal information and privacy, (ii) the obligation to cooperate in active epidemiological investigations of specific patients and others based on the amended Infectious Diseases Control Act and restrictions on the right to privacy, (iii) the applicability of personal information concerning the acceptance of tests and other examinations as special care-required personal information, and (iv) the need to respond to over-reaction without recognising the urgency of the situation. (ii) the necessity of the implementation of information security management measures in relation to infectious disease countermeasures. (3) Issues concerning the use of technology for the purpose of countermeasures against infectious diseases and privacy, including (i) the use of GPS location information, (ii) considerations required to resolve concerns in the introduction and spread of contact confirmation applications, (iii) the acquisition of biometric information and the use of biometrics, and (iv) sewage epidemiological surveys and privacy (privacy of drainage)

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Pandemics and the Protection of Privacy and Personal Information: Issues with Regard to the Use and Protection of Information on the Basis of Improving Public Health in the Fight Against Infectious Diseases

In order to make use of the response to the new the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) for pandemic countermeasures due to infectious diseases that may have a serious impact on the lives and health of the people, which may occur in the future, the handling of personal information and the protection of privacy necessary to ensure the effectiveness of countermeasures against infectious diseases will be examined. This paper intends to establish to comprehensively understand the systems for the collection and publication of information related to infectious diseases based on the Infectious Diseases Control Law, and to clarify the structure and issues of the current systems and mechanisms for the collection and management of information on infected persons

THE EXPLORATION AND PRACTICE OF INTEGRATING "FOUR SELF-CONFIDENCES" INTO IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL EDUCATION OF COLLEGE ENGLISH CURRICULUM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19

Patriotic education for college students is an important task in the education of various countries. This study conducted a 16-week patriotic and ideal education for college students in the context of Covid-19 prevention and control, and an exploration of the education model by integrating big data comparison of Chinese and foreign prevention and control in college English courses. Students in the experimental group were introduced to short videos related to Chinese and foreign news reports on the prevention and treatment of Covid-19 in the course, and carried out in-class thoughtful discussions and post-class sharing and discussions; students in the control group maintained their original study and life status. Post-test questionnaires and interviews revealed that most of the students in the experimental group realized that the necessity and success of China's epidemic prevention and control stemmed from the Chinese government's people-oriented approach and the advantages of the Chinese system and Chinese culture, which enhanced their self-confidence and pride in being Chinese and strengthened their "four self-confidences" in socialism with Chinese characteristics. More students combined their career aspirations with the modernization of China, significantly changed their learning attitudes and improved their motivation and academic performance. In contrast, students in the control group had no significant changes in the relevant post-test indicators compared with the pre-test because they maintained their original study and life status.  Article visualizations

How to Improve Disaster Governance for Non-Natural Disaster? A Literatur Study Evaluating Indonesian Government Management of Disaster during The Covid-19 Pademic

Infection with the COVID-19 virus since the end of 2019 has become the biggest pandemic tragedy of this century. In a short time, this virus spread throughout the country infecting millions of people and causing an increase in the world's death toll. At the beginning of the spread of COVID-19, government of Indonesia showed no sense of crisis and had weak disaster management system. The response to control COVID-19 impacts in Indonesia is interesting to analyze. This study adopted a quantitative systematic literature review of academic articles on Indonesian government response to the Covid-19 pandemic published in national and international journals. There were four main topics in the study of disaster management, namely government policy, intergovernmental relations, crisis communication phases, and mitigation and preparedness. This study found that that the government had to improve the communication strategies to deliver data of COVID-19 and mitigation strategies to keep COVID-19 under controlled. Thus, it is necessary to develop a model for handling non-natural disasters in the perspective of disaster governance to strengthen interactions between institutions, communication channels in the midst of crisis conditions, and develop emergency response and preparedness procedures