1. Digital Contact Tracing, Privacy, and Public Health.
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Martinez-Martin N, Wieten S, Magnus D, and Cho MK
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- Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, Humans, Mobile Applications, Pandemics, Public Health, Risk Assessment, SARS-CoV-2, Contact Tracing ethics, Contact Tracing methods, Coronavirus Infections epidemiology, Pneumonia, Viral epidemiology, Privacy, Smartphone ethics
- Abstract
Digital contact tracing, in combination with widespread testing, has been a focal point for many plans to "reopen" economies while containing the spread of Covid-19. Most digital contact tracing projects in the United States and Europe have prioritized privacy protections in the form of local storage of data on smartphones and the deidentification of information. However, in the prioritization of privacy in this narrow form, there is not sufficient attention given to weighing ethical trade-offs within the context of a public health pandemic or to the need to evaluate safety and effectiveness of software-based technology applied to public health., (© 2020 The Hastings Center.)
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- 2020
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