ICT applications and the COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on the individual's digital data, digital privacy, and data protection

A prominent move amid the COVID-19 pandemic is related to wide use of ICT applications for various reasons. Such services are context-specific and sector-specific, but we see transformative directions leading digital data collection, monitory, management platforms. For now, these have been beneficial evaluate trends issues pandemic. Some aggregated could also help decision-making processes, which helpful contain such disruptive events. However, main concern individual's information, means may shift micro-management eventual controlling tools that harm protection processes. Undoubtedly, ICTs during has primarily positive at multiple scales, pros cons before accepting all collection ICT-mediated platforms and/or must remain avoid breaching protection. This short communication paper first introduces providing an overview further analysis situation applications. Afterward, it discusses privacy, use, backbone The discussions highlight future research in this area look into associated data-driven approaches, regulations.