ArticleEthics and information technology2021
Digital contact tracing and exposure notification: ethical guidance for trustworthy pandemic management.
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- Ethics for integrating emerging technologies to contain COVID-19 in Zimbabwe.Human behavior and emerging technologies · 2021Article
- Ecologies of Public Trust: The NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2021Article
- Ethical insights from the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: considerations for building resilient healthcare systems in Europe.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2021Review
- Best Practice Guidance for Digital Contact Tracing Apps: A Cross-disciplinary Review of the Literature.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2021Review
- Privacy versus Public Health? A Reassessment of Centralised and Decentralised Digital Contact Tracing.Science and engineering ethics · 2021Article
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Abstract
There is growing interest in contact tracing apps (CT apps) for pandemic management. It is crucial to consider ethical requirements before, while, and after implementing such apps. In this paper, we illustrate the complexity and multiplicity of the ethical considerations by presenting an ethical framework for a responsible design and implementation of CT apps. Using this framework as a starting point, we briefly highlight the interconnection of social and political contexts, available measures of pandemic management, and a multi-layer assessment of CT apps. We will discuss some trade-offs that arise from this perspective. We then suggest that public trust is of major importance for population uptake of contact tracing apps. Hasty, ill-prepared or badly communicated implementations of CT apps will likely undermine public trust, and as such, risk impeding general effectiveness.
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