Psychological factors shaping public responses to COVID-19 digital contact tracing technologies in Germany.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has seen one of the first large-scale uses of digital contact tracing to track a chain of infection and contain the spread of a virus. The new technology has posed challenges both for governments aiming at high and effective uptake and for citizens weighing its benefits (e.g., protecting others' health) against the potential risks (e.g., loss of data privacy). Our cross-sectional survey with repeated measures across four samples in Germany ([Formula: see text]) focused on psychological factors contributing to the public adoption of digital contact tracing. We found that public acceptance of privacy-encroaching measures (e.g., granting the government emergency access to people's medical records or location tracking data) decreased over the course of the pandemic. Inten

SUBMITTER: Kozyreva A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8455538 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature