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ReviewEthics and information technology2022

Tracing app technology: an ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-19.

Saleh Afroogh, Amir Esmalian, Ali Mostafavi, Ali Akbari, Kambiz Rasoulkhani, Shahriar Esmaeili, Ehsan Hajiramezanali

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Review in Ethics and information technology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Role of Transparency in Digital Contact Tracing During COVID-19: Insights from an Expert Survey.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2024
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  3. Smart Cities Mission in the Face of COVID: Scope and Scale of 'Smart' COVID Responses in India.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  4. The German COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing App: A Socioeconomic Evaluation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Saleh AfrooghDepartment of Philosophy, The State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12203 USA.
Amir EsmalianUrbanResilience.AI Lab, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3612-1379
Ali MostafaviUrbanResilience.AI Lab, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840 USA.
Ali AkbariDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840 USA.
Kambiz RasoulkhaniTurner & Townsend Inc., Mission Viejo, CA 92691 USA.
Shahriar EsmaeiliDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA.
Ehsan HajiramezanaliDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX USA.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/J01107X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We conducted a systematic literature review on the ethical considerations of the use of contact tracing app technology, which was extensively implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. The rapid and extensive use of this technology during the COVID-19 pandemic, while benefiting the public well-being by providing information about people's mobility and movements to control the spread of the virus, raised several ethical concerns for the post-COVID-19 era. To investigate these concerns for the post-pandemic situation and provide direction for future events, we analyzed the current ethical frameworks, research, and case studies about the ethical usage of tracing app technology. The results suggest there are seven essential ethical considerations-privacy, security, acceptability, government surveillance, transparency, justice, and voluntariness-in the ethical use of contact tracing technology. In this paper, we explain and discuss these considerations and how they are needed for the ethical usage of this technology. The findings also highlight the importance of developing integrated guidelines and frameworks for implementation of such technology in the post- COVID-19 world. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10676-022-09659-6.

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AcceptabilityCOVID-19Ethical frameworkGovernment surveillanceJusticePrivacySecurityTransparencyVoluntariness

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PMID35915595
PMCPMC9330978

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