Recent studies highlight the importance of digital surveillance to gather individual health information due to the global pandemic caused by the new COVID-19 disease. This paper analyses its legal and ethical implications at the interface between the individual right to privacy and the collective interests of public health. We framed the discussion in law, deontology and utilitarianism. The lasted theories and human rights, especially privacy, are crucial in our argument. Health-derived dilemmas and efforts to solve them, especially by information technologies, bioethics and law, exist at these perspectives' interface. In particular, we analysed the intersection between autonomy, the right to privacy, and the so-called 'right to be forgotten' in the public health context. In other words, we studied the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of health data - a radical means of control over personal data established in Article 17 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Given the lack of specifics regarding collection and re-use of such data under the broad scope of public health purposes, implied consent does not address the issue of proportionality. We highlight legal safeguards' insufficiency, suggesting applying the `right to be forgotten' according to an ethical interpretation.

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被遗忘的权利和 COVID-19：隐私与公共利益

最近的研究强调了由于新的 COVID-19 疾病引起的全球大流行，数字监控对于收集个人健康信息的重要性。本文分析了其在个人隐私权与公共卫生的集体利益之间的界面上的法律和伦理影响。我们围绕法律、道义论和功利主义展开了讨论。持久的理论和人权，尤其是隐私，在我们的论点中至关重要。健康衍生的困境和解决这些困境的努力，特别是通过信息技术、生物伦理学和法律，存在于这些观点的交汇处。特别是，我们分析了公共卫生背景下自主权、隐私权和所谓的“被遗忘权”之间的交叉点。换句话说，我们研究了从控制者那里获得删除健康数据的权利——这是《通用数据保护条例》（GDPR）第 17 条规定的对个人数据进行控制的激进手段。鉴于缺乏在公共卫生目的广泛范围内收集和重复使用此类数据的具体细节，默示同意并未解决相称性问题。我们强调法律保障的不足，建议根据伦理解释应用“被遗忘的权利”。默示同意不涉及相称性问题。我们强调法律保障的不足，建议根据伦理解释应用“被遗忘的权利”。默示同意不涉及相称性问题。我们强调法律保障的不足，建议根据伦理解释应用“被遗忘的权利”。