Americans' perceptions of privacy and surveillance in the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study the U.S. public's attitudes toward surveillance measures aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, particularly smartphone applications (apps) that supplement traditional contact tracing.

Method

We deployed a survey of approximately 2,000 American adults to measure support for nine COVID-19 surveillance measures. We assessed attitudes toward contact tracing apps by manipulating six different attributes of a hypothetical app through a conjoint analysis experiment.

Results

A smaller percentage of respondents support the government encouraging everyone to download and use contact tracing apps (42%) compared with other surveillance measures such as enforcing temperature checks (62%), expanding traditional contact tracing (57%), carrying out centralized q

SUBMITTER: Zhang B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7757814 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature