Helmut Spudich on risk and remedies of using personal data to combat Covid-19
Our guest in this weeks' Responsible Innovation Story, Helmut Spudich, is the perfect interview partner to talk about the intersection of telecommunication and privacy:
- He was Vice President of Corporate Communications and Responsibility of T-Mobile Austria, one of the largest telecommunications provider in the country.
- He worked for many years as a journalist of innovation and economics for one of the biggest Austrian newspapers.
- He just authored a book on the challenges of using smartphone data for governmental or public purposes.
For Spudich, the telecom sector has an important role to play in combating Covid-19. Location data from telecom networks could provide a useful starting-point for contact tracking – if different providers worked together closely and if legal regulations for large-scale location tracking are clarified.
“Telecommunication networks are built on resilience. Surviving difficult situations is part of their DNA.”
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Click on the time stamps to watch the respective topics:
00:00 Covid-19 situation in Austria
02:44 Challenges for the telecommunication infrastructure
06:41 Risks and remedies of using personal data to combat Covid-19
09:48 The ambivalent role of big data, search engines and facial recognition
13:53 Success factors of trustworthy crisis communication
15:50 Resilience as the new motto for Responsible Digitization
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