With the COVID-19 outbreak affecting humanity on a pandemic
level, industry is gearing up to find the right tools to tackle the
crisis. The tech community could be no exception. Hackathons are
already being organised and sponsored by tech and social media
giants, national and regional partners. The situation has strongly
motivated the tech world to join forces in order to develop any
solution that could be of aid. And the effort is not futile.
Numerous apps have already been launched and made more widely
available to facilitate long-distance working, off-premises
diagnosis, efficient delivery of necessities as well as
health-status reporting to map the spread of the virus.
The breadth of the legal issues that may be of concern for such
solutions is large, depending on the services that are to be
provided. Perhaps most universally, it is safe to assume that most
– if not all – new apps need to heavily rely on user
data to meet the needs of the current,
