Digital Smartphone Tracking for COVID-19: Public Health and Civil Liberties in Tension

JAMA. 2020 Jun 16;323(23):2371-2372. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.8570.

Authors

I Glenn Cohen¹, Lawrence O Gostin², Daniel J Weitzner³

Affiliations

¹ Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
² O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC.
³ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PMID: 32459289
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.8570

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Contact Tracing / instrumentation
Contact Tracing / methods*
Coronavirus Infections*
Europe
Humans
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral*
Population Surveillance / methods
Privacy*
Public Health*
SARS-CoV-2
Smartphone*
United States