Digital Contact Tracing, Privacy, and Discrimination: On the Ethics of Fighting Corona (additional Corona-related funding)
- Funded by Volkswagen Stiftung
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Key facts
Disease
COVID-19start year
2020Funder
Volkswagen StiftungPrincipal Investigator
Mathias FrischResearch Location
GermanyLead Research Institution
Universität HannoverResearch Priority Alignment
N/A
Research Category
Research to inform ethical issues
Research Subcategory
Research to inform ethical issues related to Public Health Measures
Special Interest Tags
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Study Type
Non-Clinical
Clinical Trial Details
N/A
Broad Policy Alignment
Pending
Age Group
Not Applicable
Vulnerable Population
Not applicable
Occupations of Interest
Not applicable
Abstract
How can severe restrictions on public life be lifted without risking the occurrence of a second wave of the COVID-19 epidemic? We investigate the ethics of policies that may plausibly replace lockdowns, and we argue that digital contact tracing is preferable to alternative policies, even if a setting were required that is less-than privacy-preserving and that would make the use of a contact tracing app mandatory. The key impact of our research is to inform policy makers and enable public deliberation about ethical policy making during the pandemic.