Hastings Cent Rep. 2020 May;50(3):43-46. doi: 10.1002/hast.1131.
Digital contact tracing, in combination with widespread testing, has been a focal point for many plans to "reopen" economies while containing the spread of Covid-19. Most digital contact tracing projects in the United States and Europe have prioritized privacy protections in the form of local storage of data on smartphones and the deidentification of information. However, in the prioritization of privacy in this narrow form, there is not sufficient attention given to weighing ethical trade-offs within the context of a public health pandemic or to the need to evaluate safety and effectiveness of software-based technology applied to public health.
数字接触者追踪,结合广泛的测试,一直是许多计划“重新开放”经济同时控制新冠病毒传播的重点。在美国和欧洲,大多数数字接触者追踪项目都优先考虑通过在智能手机上存储数据和对信息进行去识别化来保护隐私。然而,在这种狭隘形式的隐私优先考虑中,没有充分关注在公共卫生大流行的背景下权衡道德权衡,也没有充分关注评估应用于公共卫生的基于软件的技术的安全性和有效性的必要性。