Guidance
Privacy Notice for Covid Taskforce Social Media Analysis
How the Cabinet Office uses your personal data, and what your rights are.
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The purposes for which we are processing your personal data are to collect public data from the internet, deep web and dark web to:
- Better understand concerns from aggregated data on Covid, vaccines and restriction-related discussions;
- Use aggregated geo-tagged data to assess patterns of movement between international borders and;
- Use aggregated geo-tagged data to review how effective government policy and restrictions are amongst our international comparators.
We have no intention whatsoever to collect data on specific individuals or to profile individuals. We are only interested in aggregate data. The social media analytical tools we use will process personal data as a result of searches in order to present us with non-personal aggregate information.
Published 15 June 2021