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Publication Date: 2022-Jul
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Digital Contact Tracing and Privacy
Nasereddin, Mahdi; Glantz, Edward J.; Grimes, Galen A.; Peca,Joanne; Gordon, Michelle; Bartolacci, Mike
Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, v2022 n1 Article 4 Jul 2022
Digital contact tracing tools were developed to decrease the spread of COVID-19 by supplementing traditional manual methods. Although these tools have great potential, they were developed rather quickly resulting in tools with varying levels of success. The main issues with these tools are over privacy and who might have access to the information gathered. In general, their effectiveness varied globally, where users expressed privacy concerns associated with sharing identity, illness, and location information. This paper reviews these issues in deployments across Asia, Europe, and the United States. The goal is to begin a discussion that improves the design and development of digital technologies that not only improve the control of infectious disease spread, but also achieve an appropriate standard of privacy and security.
Descriptors: Privacy, Information Technology, COVID-19, Pandemics, Access to Information, Disease Control, Information Security, Standards, Computer Software, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Users (Information)
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Asia; South Korea; Europe; United States
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