While the health crisis has largely fueled the debate on the restriction of individual freedoms for more than a year, Internet users are worried about a new text delivered to the Senate last Thursday.
This text, resulting from the senatorial delegation to the prospective, has in reality no legislative value. "
It is a reflection which should allow us to anticipate the next crises
", explains René-Paul Savary, the senator (LR) rapporteur of the text. "
It is better to debate these issues in peacetime than to be surprised,
" he pleads.
The report suggests the creation of a digital platform, called Crisis Data Hub, which would centralize all the data necessary for the best management of a serious crisis, a pandemic for example. By having digital identification, health and location data available, the executive could thus target people at risk more effectively. Health restrictions, such as quarantine or confinement could therefore be more targeted and localized. "
Perhaps we will be able tomorrow, thanks to digital technology, to regain our 'physical' freedoms faster, or even never to give them up, and have pandemics without containment,
" note the authors.
Such a platform already exists under the name of Health Data Hub, except that the data collected on the latter is strictly reserved for the field of research.
The novelty would be that this data could be unlocked for use, but "
only in times of crisis
" according to the report.
"
We would lose digital freedom to gain physical freedom
," explains the senator.
A provocative text
Before coming to the suggestion of such a platform, the senators take stock, in the first part of the text, of the various digital tracing measures taken by the governments of foreign countries, and in particular those of Asian countries. from the Southeast. In Hong Kong, for example, 60,000 electronic bracelets were distributed to ensure, with other means, that the quarantine was respected. In Taiwan, an interconnection has been made between the databases of the border police, air carriers and medical data. Thus, the authorities can check the medical history of travelers. And the report concludes: “
these particularly intrusive measures seem to have borne fruit:
these countries have the lowest population-related mortality in the world ”.
Stricter monitoring could be implemented with the Crisis Data Hub, the report says.
The use of personal data would make it possible to deploy call-to-order tools (such as sending an SMS) or even, in extreme cases, sanctions such as for example the deactivation of the pass for public transport.
“We entrust our data to GAFA so much more easily than to the government.
"
René-Paul Savary
The senator readily accepts a “
provocative
”
text
, but nevertheless regrets the “
eruptive reactions
”. "
We entrust our data so much more easily to GAFA than to the government,
" he laments. The text will soon be debated in plenary session in the National Assembly to provide food for thought. The authors suggested an experiment in the Grand Est region, after going, of course, through all the stages of the legislative debate.
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