scholarly journals And Justice For All? There Is More To Interoperability of Contact Tracing Apps Than Legal Barriers (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rik Crutzen
Keyword(s):  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Legal Barriers

UNSTRUCTURED Not applicable.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: A Technologic Tower of Babel and the Gap for International Pandemic Control

10.2196/23194 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. e23194
Author(s):  
Li Du ◽  
Vera Lúcia Raposo ◽  
Meng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
International Travel ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Tower Of Babel ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Legal Barriers ◽  
National Borders

As the world struggles with the new COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing apps of various types have been adopted in many jurisdictions for combating the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, even if they are successful in containing the virus within national borders, these apps are becoming ineffective as international travel is gradually resumed. The problem rests in the plurality of apps and their inability to operate in a synchronized manner, as well as the absence of an international entity with the power to coordinate and analyze the information collected by the disparate apps. The risk of creating a useless Tower of Babel of COVID-19 contact tracing apps is very real, endangering global health. This paper analyzes legal barriers for realizing the interoperability of contact tracing apps and emphasizes the need for developing coordinated solutions to promote safe international travel and global pandemic control.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: A Technologic Tower of Babel and the Gap for International Pandemic Control (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Du ◽  
Vera Lúcia Raposo ◽  
Meng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
International Travel ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Tower Of Babel ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Legal Barriers ◽  
National Borders

UNSTRUCTURED As the world struggles with the new COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing apps of various types have been adopted in many jurisdictions for combating the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, even if they are successful in containing the virus within national borders, these apps are becoming ineffective as international travel is gradually resumed. The problem rests in the plurality of apps and their inability to operate in a synchronized manner, as well as the absence of an international entity with the power to coordinate and analyze the information collected by the disparate apps. The risk of creating a useless Tower of Babel of COVID-19 contact tracing apps is very real, endangering global health. This paper analyzes legal barriers for realizing the interoperability of contact tracing apps and emphasizes the need for developing coordinated solutions to promote safe international travel and global pandemic control.

Can fake news really change behaviour? Evidence from a study of COVID-19 misinformation.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciara Greene ◽  
Gillian Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Real World ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Behavioural Intentions ◽  
The Real ◽  
News Stories

Previous research has argued that fake news may have grave consequences for health behaviour, but surprisingly, no empirical data have been provided to support this assumption. This issue takes on new urgency in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. In this large preregistered study (N = 3746) we investigated the effect of exposure to fabricated news stories about COVID-19 on related behavioural intentions. We observed small but measurable effects on some related behavioural intentions but not others – for example, participants who read a story about problems with a forthcoming contact-tracing app reported reduced willingness to download the app. We found no effects of providing a general warning about the dangers of online misinformation on response to the fake stories, regardless of the framing of the warning in positive or negative terms. We conclude with a call for more empirical research on the real-world consequences of fake news.

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