Re-Opening the Nation: Privacy, Surveillance, and Digital Tools for Contact Tracing

May 18, 2020 - 11:00am

Abstract: Testing and contact tracing are the keys to re-opening the nation safely. If done to scale, we can relax broad sheltering at home orders once the disease prevalence has diminished, and switch to using only targeted quarantine for the far smaller number of people actually exposed to known cases. Traditionally, contact tracing has been done person-to-person, but given the prevalence of Covid-19 and the size of the U.S. population, there is growing interest in the development of digital apps to supplement human-to-human contact tracing or warn people if they are exposed. How will these apps work? Will they preserve privacy? Will they lead to surveillance, or raise other ethical issues? Should we embrace their development, offer recommendations for better design, or abandon the idea altogether?

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