COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Data Protection Can Go Together

We discuss the implementation of app-based contact tracing to control the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and discuss its data protection and user acceptability aspects.We discuss the implementation of app-based contact tracing to control the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and discu...

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Published inJMIR mHealth and uHealth Vol. 8; no. 4; p. e19359
Main Authors Abeler, Johannes, Bäcker, Matthias, Buermeyer, Ulf, Zillessen, Hannah
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Canada JMIR Publications 20.04.2020
Subjects
Betacoronavirus
Computer Security
Contact Tracing - methods
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - transmission
COVID-19
Disease Outbreaks
Geographic Information Systems
Humans
Mobile Applications
Pandemics
Patient Rights
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral - transmission
Privacy
SARS-CoV-2
Smartphone
COVID-19
app
Bluetooth
contact tracing
proximity tracing
data protection
privacy
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Summary:We discuss the implementation of app-based contact tracing to control the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and discuss its data protection and user acceptability aspects.We discuss the implementation of app-based contact tracing to control the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and discuss its data protection and user acceptability aspects.
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ISSN:2291-5222
2291-5222
DOI:10.2196/19359