A new Slovak Act on certain emergency measures in relation to
the spread of COVID-19 will authorize the Public Health Authority
to collect, process and store data from mobile phones of residents
of the Slovak Republic, even without their consent. This measure
means an unprecedented interference with the privacy of people by
the state, but responds to an unprecedented situation.
In order to ensure that the processing of the data fulfills its
purpose and at the same time cannot be misused by the authorities
at a later stage, strict rules should apply to the processing of
personal data. The Act itself specifies that the Public Health
Authority will only be able to process basic identification data
such as the user's first name, surname, address and telephone
number, as well as information about where the user is located -
so-called location data.
