FREE Established 1961 Friday ISSUE NO: 18166 THULQAADA 5, 1441 AH FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2020 Convicted rapist arrested in UN, Europe, Arabs warn Liverpool on brink of 9 chalets area after resisting police 11 Israel against annexation 39 Premier League title Mahboula workers ‘abandoned’ by employer SEE PAGES 4-5 2 Friday Local Friday, June 26, 2020 PHOTO OF THE DAY Privacy under siege Local Spotlight By Muna Al-Fuzai
[email protected] alking about privacy and individual nationality, age, gender and travel history. freedoms is a controversial topic Personally, I am a supporter of privacy Tamong supporters and opponents, of individuals and protecting them from and each of them has their reasons accord- harm, especially with regards to their per- ing to circumstances. But nowadays it has sonal life and security, but are we tackling become a double-edged sword. this issue from a political and human per- Supporters believe that privacy should spective or health-wise or both? Is age be protected in all cases, while those who and gender confidential information nowa- are against it believe that this is not the days? I am not a proponent of violating case when public health is threatened. I privacy, and I respect this vehemently, but I think this issue will always be debatable for wonder which data that can pose a danger various reasons, mostly political, but with when exposed publicly. KUWAIT: This picture taken on June 21, 2020, shows a partial view of the Sheikh Jaber Causeway in Kuwait City. The causeway project, which includes two paths over the Kuwait Bay, is the world’s the advent of COVID-19, it has become I understand how some people can be biggest maritime causeway project.