"Prosperous Armenia" is opposed to a bill allowing to identify the  circle of people suspected of coronavirus

ArmInfo.Prosperous Armenia faction against the bill on electronic communications. PAP secretary Arman Abovyan stated this during parliamentary briefings. He noted that if the government takes such steps, then it should give a clear  explanation of why they need it. Abovyan stated that the Minister of  Justice Rustam Badasyan represented the changes in this draft,  however, these are more superficial amendments.

Note that the government bill, in fact, limits the right to  protection of personal data and privacy. According to the document,  mobile operators are obliged to provide the government with data on  telephone conversations of subscribers, in particular, the location  of the subscriber, the beginning and end of the conversation, but not  the content of the conversation. This is necessary in order to  control contacts in a situation of localization and to prevent the  uncontrolled spread of coronavirus infection.  <Badasyan told us that  in international practice, to this step resort when the situation is  heated to the limit and another way out simply no. If the situation  is really so tense, then let we will be informed about this.  And it  is not clear why the leadership of the country with such stubbornly  trying to push the project>, - said Abovyan.

The deputy said that the effectiveness of this measure is very  doubtful. "The bill should have been adopted before the development  of the coronavirus pandemic in Armenia, and now, its adoption will  not be effective and will not produce the results that the government  is counting on," he said.

In turn, the deputy from the PAP, the press secretary of the head of  the faction, Gagik Tsarukyan, Iveta Tonoyan emphasized that the  deputies, with the help of lawyers, studied this bill and consider it  unacceptable. <This is an invasion of privacy and human rights.  Government officials said that such a practice was used in South  Korea, however, the bill was passed there when the number of infected  did not exceed 30 people. There, perhaps this bill was adopted by the  time, but in Armenia the number of people infected with coronavirus  is already in the hundreds. We will vote against, especially since  the changes in this bill are cosmetic>, Tonoyan emphasized.

Tonoyan noted that the database will be kept for a month, but it is  not clear why for so long, because the quarantine lasts only two  weeks. <Moreover, this measure can be resorted to if a person has a  suspicion of a coronavirus. There are a number of other ways that  make it possible, without penetrating a person's private life, to  reveal his immediate circle of contacts>, the deputy concluded.