Analysis and Constructive Criticism of the Official Data Protection Impact Assessment of the German Corona-Warn-App

Abstract

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“…However, the instrument DPIA is not without flaws: Such assessments are not always of good quality as the one initially published by the Robert Koch-Institute (RKI) as the responsible body for the CWA shows. It did not address the relevant data protection and ethical problems due to significant methodological, technical and legal deficits (Rehak et al 2022). But if all ethical questions raised by Floridi 2020 have already been dealt with, even in great detail and most are also legally covered already, what then is the role of ethics concerning digital contact tracing and digital technologies in general?…”