As the coronavirus pandemic has spread throughout Europe, data protection authorities (DPAs) have faced questions about how far employers and other organizations—including schools, apartment blocks, and shopping centers—can go in terms of asking people personal and medical-related information to protect the rest of the public at large.

Neil Hodge is a freelance business journalist and photographer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He writes on insurance and risk management, corporate governance, internal audit, compliance, and legal...