Digital contact tracing and exposure notification: ethical guidance for trustworthy pandemic management.
Contact tracing apps
Covid-19
Health apps
Public health
Public trust
mHealth
Journal
Ethics and information technology
ISSN: 1388-1957
Titre abrégé: Ethics Inf Technol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101248311
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
pubmed:
28
10
2020
medline:
28
10
2020
entrez:
27
10
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
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.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33106749
doi: 10.1007/s10676-020-09566-8
pii: 9566
pmc: PMC7577205
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
285-294Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2020.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Conflict of interestAll authors declare that they have no Conflict of interest.
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