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CHAPTER C-2
Privacy, Ethics,
and Contact-Tracing Apps
Teresa Scassa,* Jason Millar,** and Kelly Bronson***
Abstract
Data and analytics are being enlisted to play a role in understand-
ing and preventing the spread of COVID-19. This chapter focuses on
digital “apps,” which are being deployed by governments around
the world to supplement the manual contact-tracing efforts typically
performed by public health officials. Contact-tracing apps have been
developed rapidly, with little time for user testing, and their adoption
raises important privacy and ethical concerns. In this chapter, we out-
line some of these potential concerns. We begin by tracing the history
of contact tracing as a pre-digital, or manual, method and then detail
the current contact-tracing efforts, distinguishing among different
types of apps and data use approaches. We then draw from our com-
plementary expertise in law, ethics, and sociology to outline potential
risks of contact-tracing apps along these dimensions. Risks include
* Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy and Professor, Faculty of
Law (Common Law Section), University of Ottawa.
** Canada Research Chair in The Ethical Engineering of Robotics and Artificial
Intelligence and Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, University of Ottawa.
*** Canada Research Chair in Science and Society and Assistant Professor in the
School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa. We
gratefully acknowledge the support of the Scotiabank AI & Society Initiative and
the SSHRC Canada Research Chairs program.
VULNERABLE
The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Titel
- VULNERABLE
- Untertitel
- The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Autoren
- Vanessa MacDonnell
- Jane Philpott
- Sophie Thériault
- Sridhar Venkatapuram
- Verlag
- Ottawa Press
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9780776636429
- Abmessungen
- 15.2 x 22.8 cm
- Seiten
- 648
- Kategorien
- Coronavirus
- International