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have difficulty interpreting consent or user agreements. Last, with
AI-enabled contact-tracing apps, language or literacy barriers may
impact symptom collection. Not only may some users not be able to
fully understand the questionnaires, the interpretation of one’s symp-
toms is necessarily subjective and can be influenced by anxiety, a ten-
dency toward hypochondria or its opposite, or a perceived need to
not be identified as symptomatic in order to be able to return to work,
for example.
Conclusion
In sum, the issues raised by contact-tracing apps include privacy
and security risks, but also broader issues of ethics and social justice.
These issues must be carefully considered by developers and adopt-
ing governments. Privacy impact assessments and algorithmic impact
assessments are one way to identify and address issues. Transparency
as to the results of these assessments can build public trust. A failure
to carefully consider and address the legal, ethical, and social impli-
cations of contact-tracing apps could lead to legitimacy failures for
public health and technology firms, and stall our collective desire to
mitigate fallout from COVID-19.
VULNERABLE
The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Title
- VULNERABLE
- Subtitle
- The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Authors
- Vanessa MacDonnell
- Jane Philpott
- Sophie Thériault
- Sridhar Venkatapuram
- Publisher
- Ottawa Press
- Date
- 2020
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9780776636429
- Size
- 15.2 x 22.8 cm
- Pages
- 648
- Categories
- Coronavirus
- International