Post-COVID Public Health Surveillance and Privacy Expectations in the United States: Scenario-Based Interview Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smartphone-based apps designed and deployed to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic may become infrastructure for postpandemic public health surveillance in the United States. Through the lenses of privacy concerns and user expectations of digital pandemic mitigation techniques, we identified possible long-term sociotechnical implications of such an infrastructure.

Objective

We explored how people in the United States perceive the possible routinization of pandemic tracking apps for public health surveillance in general. Our interdisciplinary analysis focused on the interplay between privacy concerns, data practices of surveillance capitalism, and trust in health care providers. We conducted this analysis to achieve a richer understanding of the sociotechnical issues ra

SUBMITTER: Seberger JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8494069 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature