Becker's Healthcare May 27, 2020
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University provided guidance for responsible and ethical digital contact tracing with technology that includes smartphone apps in its new report, “Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response.”
“As we move forward, we must strike a balance between privacy and values like equity, choice, economic well-being and solidarity,” said Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, director of Johns Hopkins University’s Berman Institute for Bioethics. “Too much emphasis on privacy could severely limit the ability to gather information that is critical for effective and efficient contact tracing to help beat the pandemic, and so the full range of interests and values of the public must drive this conversation — and not just those asserted by tech companies.”
The report authors concluded that privacy...
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