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The Covid-19 Pandemic and Data Sharing for the Public Good: Attitudinal, Ethical, and Legal Approaches to Privacy During the Pandemic and Beyond

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • start year

    2020

  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung

  • Principal Investigator

    Prof Dr and Prof Dr Frauke Kreuter, Thomas Fetzer

  • Research Location

    Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    Universität Mannheim

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Health Systems Research

  • Research Subcategory

    Health information systems

  • Special Interest Tags

    Data Management and Data Sharing

  • 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

Does the Covid-19 pandemic lead to a temporary or persistent shift in the acceptance of data sharing practices for public benefit purposes? The project measures the acceptance of different data sharing scenarios at multiple time points to show which situational parameters affect acceptance, and whether these parameters change over time. This research adds to our understanding of the context dependency of privacy attitudes. By involving ethical and legal sciences it will help translate the research results into guidelines for policy-makers and legislators when processing personal data for the public good.