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Contact tracing apps and values dilemmas: A privacy paradox in a neo-liberal
world
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Rowe F
Int J Inf Manage
2020[Dec]; 55
(?): 102178
PMID32836636
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Contact tracing apps are presented as a solution, if not the solution, to curb
pandemics in the Covid-19 crisis. In France, despite heated public institutional
debate on privacy related issues, the app was presented by government as an
essential benefit for protecting health and lives, thus avoiding both politicians
and citizens to feel morally responsible and looking guilty, and as essential to
recover our freedom to move. However we argue that, while detection of cases have
still not been reported after 10 days and one million app downloads - a situation
comparable to Australia who launched its app a month before -, the adoption of
the app generates important risks to our informational privacy, surveillance and
habituation to security policies. It also may create discrimination, distrust and
generate other health problems such as addiction and others as 5G technology
continues to be deployed without prior impact studies. Finally the smartphone app
against covid epidemics appears as an extreme case of the privacy paradox where
the government plays on the immediate benefits and downplays long-term concerns
while inducing a technology of self. Contact tracing apps may become an
emblematic case for digital transformation and value changes in the western
world.
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