COVID-19 and Contact Tracing Apps: Ethical Challenges for a Social Experiment on a Global Scale

• DOI: 10.1007/s11673-020-10016-9
• Publication Date: 2020-08-25T12:02:42Z
• Authors: Federica Lucivero; Nina Hallowell; Stephanie Johnson; Barbara Prainsack; Gabrielle Samuel; Tamar Sharon
• Keywords: Contact tracing; 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak; Social contact; Medical law; Pandemic

Mobile applications are increasingly regarded as important tools for an integrated strategy of infection containment in post-lockdown societies around the globe. This paper discusses a number questions that should be addressed when assessing ethical challenges mobile digital contact-tracing COVID-19: Which safeguards designed technology? Who access data? What is legitimate role "Big Tech" companies development and implementation these systems? How cultural behavioural issues accounted design apps? Should use apps compulsory? does transparency oversight mean this context? We demonstrate responses to complex contingent argue if contract-tracing used, then it clear on trial basis its subject independent monitoring evaluation.