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Social Licensing of Privacy- Encroaching Policies to Address COVID

  • Funded by Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research
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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Funder

    Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research

  • Principal Investigator

    Stephan Lewandowsky

  • Research Location

    United Kingdom

  • Lead Research Institution

    N/A

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    Communication

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic may require governments to use big data technologies to help contain its spread. Tracking allows government agencies to observe who you have been in contact with and when this contact occurred, thereby rapidly implementing appropriate measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19. This project involves a longitudinal cross-cultural study to trace people's attitudes towards different tracking-based policies during the crisis, to understand: the factors that influence the social license around governmental use of location tracking data in an emergency; how this may change over time; and how it may differ across cultures.