Contact tracing apps for the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic literature review of challenges and future directions for neo-liberal societies

A Akinbi, M Forshaw, V Blinkhorn - Health Information Science and …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has spread with increased fatalities around the world and
has become an international public health crisis. Public health authorities in many countries …

[HTML][HTML] State of the art in adoption of contact tracing apps and recommendations regarding privacy protection and public health: systematic review

K Kolasa, F Mazzi… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2021 - mhealth.jmir.org
Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing apps have received a lot of
public attention. The ongoing debate highlights the challenges of the adoption of data-driven …

Blind-sided by privacy? Digital contact tracing, the Apple/Google API and big tech's newfound role as global health policy makers

T Sharon - Ethics and information technology, 2021 - Springer
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, governments have turned their attention to digital contact
tracing. In many countries, public debate has focused on the risks this technology poses to …

[HTML][HTML] Early perceptions of COVID-19 contact tracing apps in German-speaking countries: Comparative mixed methods study

BM Zimmermann, A Fiske, B Prainsack… - Journal of medical …, 2021 - jmir.org
Background The main German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
have implemented digital contact tracing apps to assist the authorities with COVID-19 …

Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic

P Vasilopoulos, H McAvay, S Brouard… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Covid‐19 pandemic brought unprecedented governmental restrictions to personal and
political freedoms. This article investigates individual‐level differences in mass support for …

COVID-19 contact tracing apps: UK public perceptions

G Samuel, SL Roberts, A Fiske, F Lucivero… - Critical Public …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In order to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers around the globe have
increasingly invested in digital health technologies to support the 'test, track and …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 surveillance systems in African countries

YA Adebisi, A Rabe… - Health promotion …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Surveillance forms the basis for response to disease outbreaks, including
COVID-19. Herein, we identified the COVID-19 surveillance systems and the associated …

[HTML][HTML] Contact tracing apps: lessons learned on privacy, autonomy, and the need for detailed and thoughtful implementation

K Hogan, B Macedo, V Macha, A Barman… - JMIR Medical …, 2021 - medinform.jmir.org
The global and national response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been inadequate due to a
collective lack of preparation and a shortage of available tools for responding to a large …

Normative positions towards COVID-19 contact-tracing apps: findings from a large-scale qualitative study in nine European countries

F Lucivero, L Marelli, N Hangel… - Critical Public …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Mobile applications for digital contact tracing have been developed and introduced around
the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Proposed as a tool to support …

Privacy versus public health? A reassessment of centralised and decentralised digital contact tracing

L White, P van Basshuysen - Science and Engineering Ethics, 2021 - Springer
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, high hopes were placed on digital contact
tracing. Digital contact tracing apps can now be downloaded in many countries, but as …