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Privacy In The Age Of Contact Tracing: An Analysis Of Contact Tracing Apps In Different Statutory And Disease Frameworks, Christopher S. Yoo, Apratim Vidyarthi
Privacy In The Age Of Contact Tracing: An Analysis Of Contact Tracing Apps In Different Statutory And Disease Frameworks, Christopher S. Yoo, Apratim Vidyarthi
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The Covid-19 pandemic is a historic pandemic that has affected the lives of virtually everyone on the globe. One approach to slowing the spread of the disease is to use contact tracing, facilitated by our internet-connected smartphones. Different nations and states have partnered to develop a variety of contact tracing apps that use different technologies and architectures.
This paper investigates how five contact tracing apps—Germany’s Corona-Warn-App, Israel’s HaMagen, North Dakota’s Care19 Diary and Alert apps, and India’s Aarogya Setu—fare in privacy-oriented statutory frameworks to understand the design choices and public health implications shaped by these statutes. The three statutes—the Health …