Digital Contact Tracing and Surveillance During COVID-19: General and Child-Specific Ethical Issues | NLM

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Digital Contact Tracing and Surveillance During COVID-19: General and Child-Specific Ethical Issues

06/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Published: 6/2020. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has seen an unprecedented rapid scaling up of technologies to support digital contact tracing and surveillance. This 26-page working paper explores the implications for privacy as the linking of datasets increases the likelihood that children will be identifiable; increases the opportunity for (sensitive) data profiling; and frequently involves making data available to a broader set of users or data managers. (PDF)