[community] FYI Ethical Guidelines for SARS-CoV-2 Digital Tracking and Tracing Systems

moisen mohsen moisenm at gmail.com
Fri May 1 16:16:52 UTC 2020


An interesting article on Data ethics:
Ethical Guidelines for SARS-CoV-2 Digital Tracking and Tracing Systems
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jessica_Morley3/publication/340844628_Ethical_Guidelines_for_SARS-CoV-2_Digital_Tracking_and_Tracing_Systems/links/5ea04915a6fdccfc26a7441b/Ethical-Guidelines-for-SARS-CoV-2-Digital-Tracking-and-Tracing-Systems.pdf
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By Jessica Morley1*^, Josh Cowls1,2^, Mariarosaria Taddeo1,2^, Luciano
Floridi1,2^
1 Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, OX1 3JS
2 The Alan Turing Institute, British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB


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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jessica_Morley3/publication/340844628_Ethical_Guidelines_for_SARS-CoV-2_Digital_Tracking_and_Tracing_Systems/links/5ea04915a6fdccfc26a7441b/Ethical-Guidelines-for-SARS-CoV-2-Digital-Tracking-and-Tracing-Systems.pdf
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*Summary:* The World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global
pandemic on 11th March 2020, recognising that the underlying SARS-CoV-2 has
caused the greatest global crisis since World War II. In this article, we
present a framework to evaluate whether and to what extent the use of
digital systems that track and/or trace potentially infected individuals is
not only legal but also ethical. Digital tracking and tracing (DTT) systems
may severely limit fundamental rights and freedoms, but they ought not to
be deployed in a vacuum of guidance, to ensure that they are ethically
justifiable, i.e. coherent with society’s expectations and values.
Interventions must be necessary to achieve a specific public health
objective, proportional to the seriousness of the public health threat,
scientifically sound to support their effectiveness, and time-bounded
(1,2). However, this is insufficient. This is why in this article we
present a more inclusive framework also comprising twelve enabling factors
to guide the design and development of ethical DTT systems.

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