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Michelle M. Mello and C. Jason Wang discuss Ethics and Governance for Digital Disease Surveillance in Science, May 29, 2020 |
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Jessica Morley et al. provide principles to inform Ethical Guidelines for COVID-19 Tracing Apps, in Nature, May 28, 2020 |
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Legal and Ethical Implications of Wastewater Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 for COVID-19 Surveillance are dependent, in part, on the reliability of the science and the efficacy of procedures employed, which are yet to be established according to this June 2020 article |
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Privacy and Ethics Recommendations for Computing Applications Developed to Mitigate COVID-19, from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, “offers recommendations to put civil liberties at the center of contact tracing methods, and to ensure that federally funded AI tools used in pandemic response account for potential bias and avoid introducing additional unfairness into healthcare delivery and outcomes” |
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Transcript: Re-Opening the Nation: Privacy, Surveillance and Digital Tools for Contact Tracing, the transcript of The Hasting Center’s May 18, 2020 discussion focused on digital tools and the ethical considerations they raise |
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A National COVID-19 Surveillance System: Achieving Containment, an April 7, 2020 policy report from Duke University’s Margolis Center for Health Policy describing features of a national surveillance system to mitigate the current pandemic wave and to limit and suppress future outbreaks |
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The European Data Protection Board’s Statement on the Processing of Personal Data in the Context of the COVID-19 Outbreak, adopted March 19, 2020 |
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The Value and Ethics of Using Technology to Contain the COVID-19 Epidemic surveys ethical issues presented by some countries’ uses of technology to support nonpharmaceutical interventions in the pandemic, including digital contact tracing and use of geolocation data, April 23, 2020 |
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The Value and Ethics of Using Phone Data to Monitor Covid-19, a March 30, 2020 analysis in Wired |
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Ethics and the Conduct of Public Health Surveillance by Amy Fairchild and Ronald Bayer addresses the question of whether the collection and analysis of data should always be considered research and thus be subject to ethical oversight, and whether this oversight should be welcomed or regarded as an impediment, 2004 |
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Ethical Issues in Public Health Surveillance: A Systematic Qualitative Review, 2017 |
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With more students taking courses online due to the pandemic, an additional form of surveillance is unnerving some: remote proctoring of them taking examinations, as Monica Chin reports in Exam Anxiety: How Remote Test-proctoring Is Creeping Students Out—As Schools Go Remote, So Do Tests and So Does Surveillance, April 29, 2020 |