Peer-to-peer contact tracing: a privacy-preserving smartphone application
Yasaka, Tyler M. ; Lehrich, Brandon M. ; Sahyouni, Ronald
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
2020
8
4
1-9
privacy ; epidemic disease ; technology
Human rights
English
"The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an urgent public health crisis, with epidemiologic models predicting severe consequences, including high death rates, if the virus is permitted to run its course without any intervention or response. Contact tracing using smartphone technology is a powerful tool which may be employed to limit disease transmission during an epidemic or pandemic, yet contact tracing applications present with significant privacy concerns regarding the collection of personal data such as location. ..."
Digital
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