الخصوصية الرقمية خلال الأزمات: الواقع و التحديات : أزمة كورونا نموذجا

Abstract EN

This paper attempts to highlight the reality of privacy in cyberspace coinciding by the growing of mass-surveillance during the Corona pandemic (covid-19) and challenges facing personal data protection, governments (specially China) have intensified processes of collecting and sharing personal data of individuals across the world for reasons to save lives, starting in China (the source of the virus) and reaching the rest of the world, which threatens the right of privacy and weakens personal data protection.

This paper has been relying on the exploratory descriptive approach, through a reading of the measures adopted by governments to strengthen the mass-surveillance during the Coronavirus pandemic, and monitoring the warnings declared and reports of organizations and bodies defending privacy.

We have concluded through this paper that digital privacy is greatly threatened and confronts difficult challenges in future, especially during international crises.

key words: privacy; mass-surveillance; Cyberspace; covid-19; security.