Many are under the impression that increased access to data means decreased privacy, and while that may have been true in certain circumstances, COVID-19 has forced us to find a way to strike a balance between personal privacy and operational safety. The general public and employees are tired of being forced to compromise privacy for convenience in other facets of their life and wary of more of the same when it comes to their COVID health data.
In order to get the future right, the reopening process must balance COVID-19's numerous implications—health, safety, rights, and freedoms. We don’t need to dismiss privacy to gain value from the health data involved.