Afroogh Saleh, Esmalian Amir, Mostafavi Ali, Akbari Ali, Rasoulkhani Kambiz, Esmaeili Shahriar, Hajiramezanali Ehsan
Department of Philosophy, The State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12203 USA.
UrbanResilience.AI Lab, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840 USA.
Ethics Inf Technol. 2022;24(3):30. doi: 10.1007/s10676-022-09659-6. Epub 2022 Jul 27.
We conducted a systematic literature review on the ethical considerations of the use of contact tracing app technology, which was extensively implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. The rapid and extensive use of this technology during the COVID-19 pandemic, while benefiting the public well-being by providing information about people's mobility and movements to control the spread of the virus, raised several ethical concerns for the post-COVID-19 era. To investigate these concerns for the post-pandemic situation and provide direction for future events, we analyzed the current ethical frameworks, research, and case studies about the ethical usage of tracing app technology. The results suggest there are seven essential ethical considerations-privacy, security, acceptability, government surveillance, transparency, justice, and voluntariness-in the ethical use of contact tracing technology. In this paper, we explain and discuss these considerations and how they are needed for the ethical usage of this technology. The findings also highlight the importance of developing integrated guidelines and frameworks for implementation of such technology in the post- COVID-19 world.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10676-022-09659-6.
我们对新冠疫情期间广泛应用的接触者追踪应用程序技术的伦理考量进行了系统的文献综述。在新冠疫情期间，这项技术迅速且广泛地被使用，虽然通过提供人们的流动信息来控制病毒传播，造福了公众健康，但也引发了后新冠时代的若干伦理问题。为了调查疫情后情况中的这些问题，并为未来事件提供指导，我们分析了当前关于追踪应用程序技术伦理使用的伦理框架、研究和案例研究。结果表明，在接触者追踪技术的伦理使用方面，有七个基本的伦理考量因素——隐私、安全、可接受性、政府监控、透明度、公正性和自愿性。在本文中，我们解释并讨论了这些考量因素以及它们对于该技术伦理使用的必要性。研究结果还强调了为后新冠时代实施此类技术制定综合指南和框架的重要性。
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