Citizen-Centered Mobile Health Apps Collecting Individual-Level Spatial Data for Infectious Disease Management: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 rapidly spread around the world, causing the disease COVID-19. To contain the virus, much hope is placed on participatory surveillance using mobile apps, such as automated digital contact tracing, but broad adoption is an important prerequisite for associated interventions to be effective. Data protection aspects are a critical factor for adoption, and privacy risks of solutions developed often need to be balanced against their functionalities. This is reflected by an intensive discussion in the public and the scientific community about privacy-preserving approaches.

Objective

Our aim is to inform the current discussions and to support the development of solutions providing an optimal balance between privacy protection and pandemic

SUBMITTER: Wirth FN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7674146 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature