Autore
Della Morte, Gabriele

Titolo
Quanto Immuni? Luci, ombre e penombre dell'app selezionata dal Governo italiano
Periodico
Diritti umani e diritto internazionale
Anno: 2020 - Volume: 14 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 303 - Pagina finale: 335

The recourse, made by Italy, to contact tracing apps in order to counter the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus is part of similar experiences which have been already tested, with various results, in differentStates. Despite the considerable variety of solutions adopted, these contact tracing systems raise differentlegal issues: protection of personal data, right to health, freedom of movement etc. All thesefactors require a delicate balance: on the one hand, it is necessary to compress the protection ofpersonal data and, on the other, it is needed to make sure that these limitations are necessary andproportional to the concrete benefits that the app is able to produce on the ground of the contrast tothe epidemic. The essay, after conducting an excursus on the origins of the Italian app “Immuniµ(section 2) and on the guidelines developed by the European Union in this regard (section 3), focuseson the possible contact tracing options and on the one which has been finally selected by the ItalianGovernment (sections 4-9). After analysing the legal basis of the latter (sections 10 and 11), the paperassesses the compliance of the above system with the obligations set by the international norms (section12). Finally, it develops some observations on the merits (section 13), the critical aspects (section14), and the grey areas emerging from the effort to strike a fair balance between the competing interestsat stake (section 15).



SICI: 1971-7105(2020)14:2<303:QILOEP>2.0.ZU;2-F
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