The right to personal data protection, digital technologies and the pandemic for COVID-19 in Colombia

COVID-19 pandemic has generated additional social and political impacts beyond those strictly related to health, leading countries to, within the context of declared states of emergency, temporarily limit some civil rights and liberties in order to preserve their citizen’s life and health On the other hand, it has accelerated the digital transformation with the development and use of technological tools to complement public health measures Several international organizations have voiced their concern about the violation of the right to personal data protection in this new scenario and have even proposed ethical guidelines to be taken into account This article will analyses the measures that have been implemented in Colombia during COVID-19 pandemic, from the actual perspective of the legal framework of the right to personal data protection, and how its principles and rights may be reinterpreted in the light of these new ethical recommendations Copyright © 2020 Ana Gomez-Cordoba, Sinay Arevalo-Leal, Diana Bernal-Camargo, Daniela Rosero de los Rios