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Digital Contact Tracing, Privacy, and Public Health
Author(s) -
MartinezMartin Nicole,
Wieten Sarah,
Magnus David,
Cho Mildred K.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1002/hast.1131
Subject(s) - contact tracing , internet privacy , context (archaeology) , public health , pandemic , tracing , computer security , point (geometry) , privacy law , covid-19 , information privacy , computer science , business , privacy policy , geography , medicine , nursing , geometry , disease , archaeology , mathematics , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , operating system
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 .