As the coronavirus pandemic has spread throughout Europe, data protection authorities (DPAs) have faced questions about how far employers and other organizationsโ€”including schools, apartment blocks, and shopping centersโ€”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...