Episode 1: Is Big Infrastructure the next big data issue? A look at COVID-19 contact tracing apps
Anna Hoffman, a barrister at 4 Pump Court Chambers in London, gives us an insight into UK’s developing tracing apps and the extent to which those may impede on our basic rights to privacy. The UK’s handling of the pandemic may serve as a microcosm of future issues facing the regulation of technology such as the growth of colossal tech companies, showing increasing divergence in attitudes to privacy between the West and Asia.