A Critical Study To Understand Privacy Concerns With Covid-19 Patient Data

Authors

  • Dr. Pushpendu Rakshit , Dr. Pramod Kumar Srivastava, Dr. Shailendra Kumar Srivastava, Yogender Kumar , Vishal Kumar

Abstract

Pandemic COVID-19 has increased our dependencies being on virtual world. Our nation
has also marched ahead showing its presence on virtual world during these days of lockdown. The
Digital India is a daydream to certify that government facilities are made available for all citizens
electronically by filtering online infrastructure to produce nation forward digitally and economically
during COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, digital podia are found to be best suitable at modern times. As
per Digital rights anxieties over details of Covid-19 quarantined people being shared on social media
platforms, is called as breach of privacy. This research is naive by nature and holds pilot studies at
present. Information concealment mentions to the craving of individuals to rheostat or have some
influence over data about themselves. In this paper, we learn about the existing conditions of
information privacy and conserving private details of patients or people under quarantine thus
deliberates information privacy as a key construct. Privacy concerns to be a primary global worry
and must be dealt strictly. Lack of cyber literacy leads to spread of fake news or misinformation
about corona victims. The assessment of the literature reveals that information privacy is a diverse
concept, but seldom studied for families, patients, corona worriers in the reality of the COVID-19
pandemic. This is an explorative study on secondary data to identify the ways to maintain data
privacy of corona patients in India amid pandemic era.

Published

2020-10-24

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