CONTACT TRACING: People should be told what type of data is being collected, its purpose and how it is to be used, with all information to be deleted after 28 days
Taipei Times
Dakte: May 29, 2020
By: Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
Central Epidemic Command Center information team head Chien Hung-wei explains new guidelines for public venues to collect personal contact information at the center’s daily news briefing in Taipei yesterday.
Photo courtesy of the Central Epidemic Command Center
The purpose of collecting such information is to allow health authorities to contact visitors to a location quickly if necessary, it said.
The guidelines are meant for various operators who might find it necessary to ask people to register, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), head of the center, said at its daily briefing in Taipei.
Collected information can only be used at the request of health authorities for COVID-19 investigations, said Chien Hung-wei (簡宏偉), who heads the center’s information team.
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