"Stephen L Roberts explains why, despite the supplemental value of some digital surveillance practices in the tracking of disease outbreaks, the concerns which arise from their use are multi-faceted and complex.

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought new big data-driven practices of infectious disease surveillance to the forefront of efforts to track cases in real-time. As infections have continued to spread across the globe, governments have increasingly sought to capitalise on the volume, variety and velocity of the Big Data era, and to partner with Big Tech corporations in order to accelerate the surveillance of infected populations."

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