Data in times of pandemic: The urgency of a new covenant. Reflections from Latin America and the Caribbean

Advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) provide real-time access to a vast amount of data, through which it is possible to know the behavior of social facts In this scenario, the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has allowed, under questionable criteria of immediacy and urgency, to circulate information that generates reality and impacts on decision-making;and has also favored the appropriation of the data, exposing people to violations of their fundamental rights Both issues are sensitive to Latin America and the Caribbean, a region that today is presented itself not only as the epicenter of the pandemic but also of inequalities The contribution that bioethical reflection and deliberation can make in this matter, acquires special relevance with a view to generating a new covenant for the treatment of data Copyright © 2020 Patricia Sorokin, Maria Angelica Sotomayor Saavedra, Blanca Borquez Polloni, Myrna Marti, Alejandro Duro, Estela Quiroz Malca, Agueda Munoz del Carpio Toia, Eduardo A Duro, Fabiola Czubaj, Laura Rueda, Elizabeth M Benites Estupinan, Paula Romina Putallaz, Santiago A Resett, Ida Cristina Gubert, Luis M Lopez Davila, Alejandra Mpolas Andreadis, Mirtha Andreau de Bennato, Claude Verges