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Strengthening Privacy Protections in COVID-19 Mobile Phone-Enhanced Surveillance Programs
From the Document: "Dozens of countries, including the United States, have been using mobile phone tools and data sources for COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] surveillance activities, such as tracking infections and community spread, identifying populated areas at risk, and enforcing quarantine orders. These tools can augment traditional epidemiological interventions, such as contact tracing with technology-based data collection (e.g., automated signaling and record-keeping on mobile phone apps). As the response progresses, other beneficial technologies could include tools that authenticate those with low risk of contagion or that build community trust as stay-at-home orders are lifted. However, the potential benefits that COVID-19 mobile phone-enhanced public health ('mobile') surveillance program tools could provide are also accompanied by potential for harm. There are significant risks to citizens from the collection of sensitive data, including personal health, location, and contact data. People whose personal information is being collected might worry about who will receive the data, how those recipients might use the data, how the data might be shared with other entities, and what measures will be taken to safeguard the data from theft or abuse. The risk of privacy violations can also impact government accountability and public trust."
RAND Corporation
Boudreaux, Benjamin; DeNardo, Matthew A.; Denton, Sarah W. . . .
2020
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Data Privacy During Pandemics: A Scorecard Approach for Evaluating the Privacy Implications of COVID-19 Mobile Phone Surveillance Programs
From the Description: "Public health officials around the world are struggling to respond to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To contain the highly infectious disease, governments have turned to mobile phone surveillance programs to augment traditional public health interventions. These programs have been designed to track COVID-19 symptoms, map population movement, trace the contacts of infected persons, enforce quarantine orders, and authorize movement through health passes. Although these programs enable more-robust public health interventions, they also raise concerns that the privacy and civil liberties of users will be violated. In this report, the authors evaluate the short- and long-term privacy harms associated with the use of these programs--including political, economic, and social harms. They consider whether two potentially competing goals can be achieved concurrently: (1) the use of mobile phones as public health surveillance tools to help manage COVID 19 and future public health crises, and (2) the protection of privacy and civil liberties."
RAND Corporation
Boudreaux, Benjamin; DeNardo, Matthew A.; Denton, Sarah W. . . .
2020
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