Contact tracing apps raise serious human rights concerns: please let’s stop to consider them in race to end #COVID19. The apps use mobile phones to flag proximity of two people, prompting s.o. who came into contact with a person with COVID-19 to self-isolate. 1/ https://twitter.com/marcelsalathe/status/1246352102059847680">https://twitter.com/marcelsal...
But even if anonymized, in Singapore, S Korea, China we saw it can be associated with other data to (accurately or inaccurately) identify individuals. Individuals ID’ed based on locations – even mistakenly – were harassed and mobbed online. 2/ https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/ethics/halting-covid19-benefits-risks-digital-contact-tracing">https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human...
For some populations, the risk of identification => risk of violence, discrimination: women and girls at risk of intimate partner violence (i.e., 1/3 of women and girls); LGBTIQ; PLHIV; refugees, migrants; racial or ethnic minorities; religious groups. 3/ https://www.hhrjournal.org/2020/01/a-democracy-deficit-in-digital-health/">https://www.hhrjournal.org/2020/01/a...
Digital was poorly governed before COVID-19 crisis: in race to partner w/ tech giants, there are tough questions about who owns data, who can sell it, which national laws govern it, what can be shared. 5/
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