The institutions have begun to transfer to our country some of the responses of the Asian countries to the coronavirus crisis and it seems that the Basque Government has found in South Korea the model it likes the most: they have faced this public health crisis in the country keeping its industrial machinery as fast as possible and the Basque institutions dream about it, while allowing citizens to go to work without drastic measures to avoid further contagion.

Of all the decisions taken by Seoul, which mentions the intervention before becoming a crisis, the carrying out of many very frequent tests or very broad information campaigns in this article, The New York Times seems that, at the moment, the administration of Iñigo Urkullu wants to import a single application that allows monitoring the citizens, detecting who is infected and who does not know.

This digital tool would allow the Basque Government to keep under control the citizens who have tested positive in the Basque health system and would allow citizens to provide up-to-date data on their state of health. The GPS mobile phone system allows citizens to geolocate through an application that the CAV Government wants to launch next week. Not only that: if in the neighborhood you live in identified a new case of Covid-19, the application would report it.

South Korea started studying these types of systems after the state of health alert due to MERS syndrome in 2015, and that same year the privacy legislation was modified to be able to use applications such as the one the Basque Government now wants to use. In 2018, legislation on the use of data was again modified to be able to monitor their movements without the consent of the public.

It remains to be seen whether the authorities of the CAV and the Spanish State that will amend the legislation to use the new application or, taking advantage of the emergency, will adapt the obstacles imposed on them by respect for the privacy of citizens.