Fostering participation in digital contact tracing

Rehse, Dominik; Tremöhlen, Felix

doi:10.1016/j.infoecopol.2021.100938

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“…From the efficiency point of view, it makes sense to trace index cases with high number of contacts first. However, in the LLMIC setting, perhaps, it is not easy to determine the number of contacts as there may be low adoption rate of smartphones, limited access to WiFi, or lack of tools such as digital contact tracing app [25][26][27]. Other factors such as relative housing density and occupation type could be correlated with number of contacts and affect people's preferences.…”

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The Relative Importance of Vulnerability and Efficiency in COVID-19 Contact Tracing Programmes: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Wang¹,

Faradiba

Vilas

et al. 2022

Int J Public Health

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Objectives: This study aims to assess the trade-offs between vulnerability and efficiency attributes of contact tracing programmes based on preferences of COVID-19 contact tracing practitioners, researchers and other relevant stakeholders at the global level.Methods: We conducted an online discrete choice experiment (DCE). Respondents were recruited globally to explore preferences according to country income level and the prevailing epidemiology of COVID-19 in the local setting. The DCE attributes represented efficiency (timeliness, completeness, number of contacts), vulnerability (vulnerable population), cooperation and privacy. A mixed-logit model and latent class analysis were used.Results: The number of respondents was 181. Timeliness was the most important attribute regardless of country income level and COVID-19 epidemiological condition. Vulnerability of contacts was the second most important attribute for low-to-lower-middle-income countries and third for upper-middle-to-high income countries. When normalised against conditional relative importance of timeliness, conditional relative importance of vulnerability ranged from 0.38 to 0.42.Conclusion: Vulnerability and efficiency criteria were both considered to be important attributes of contact tracing programmes. However, the relative values placed on these criteria varied significantly between epidemiological and economic context.

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The Relative Importance of Vulnerability and Efficiency in COVID-19 Contact Tracing Programmes: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Wang¹,

Faradiba

Vilas

et al. 2022

Int J Public Health

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“…Convenience plays an important role in facilitating the mass adoption of contact tracing apps by addressing concerns over app specifications like battery consumption, update procedure, and background running (Trang et al, 2020). The design of HCAs further boost convenience by plugging into the mature and widely used mini program ecosystems of Alipay and WeChat so that users would have high technical familiarities with the apps (Rehse and Tremöhlen, 2021).…”

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Privacy at risk? Understanding the perceived privacy protection of health code apps in China

Huang

Chen

2022

Big Data & Society

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As a key constituent of China's approach to fighting COVID-19, Health Code apps (HCAs) not only serve the pandemic control imperatives but also exercise the agency of digital surveillance. As such, HCAs pave a new avenue for ongoing discussions on contact tracing solutions and privacy amid the global pandemic. This article attends to the perceived privacy protection among HCA users via the lens of the contextual integrity theory. Drawing on an online survey of adult HCA users in Wuhan and Hangzhou (N = 1551), we find users’ perceived convenience, attention towards privacy policy, trust in government, and acceptance of government purposes regarding HCA data management are significant contributors to users’ perceived privacy protection in using the apps. By contrast, users’ frequency of mobile privacy protection behaviors has limited influence, and their degrees of perceived protection do not vary by sociodemographic status. These findings shed new light on China's distinctive approach to pandemic control with respect to the state's expansion of big data-driven surveillance capacity. Also, the findings foreground the heuristic value of contextual integrity theory to examine controversial digital surveillance in non-Western contexts. Put tougher, our findings contribute to the thriving scholarly conversations around digital privacy and surveillance in China, as well as contact tracing solutions and privacy amid the global pandemic.

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“…A structured, consistent, and evidence-based communication strategy could help achieve the above goals. This considers, as Rehse and Tremöhlenb illustrate ( 70 ), reliable communicators, communication channels, information content, the timing of communication, etc. For the developers and supporters of the apps, open communication with the public requires the key actors to explicate the limited purposes, benefits, and temporary nature of the apps, including but not limited to an explanation of the necessity and proportionality of using digital contact tracing and an explanation of the relevant entities' restrictions and responsibilities such as data minimization, security, and retention ( 71 , 72 ).…”

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Beyond legislation and technological design: The importance and implications of institutional trust for privacy issues of digital contact tracing

Teng

Yan

2022

Front. Digit. Health

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For proper implementation of digital contact tracing technologies for fighting against SARS-CoV-2, participants' privacy vulnerability and the uncertainty from the relevant institutions' side could be seen as two core elements that should be dealt with, among others. In this paper, we propose to understand the current approaches for preserving privacy, referred to as privacy by legislation and privacy by technological design, as distrusting strategies that primarily work to reduce participants' vulnerability by specifying and implementing privacy standards related to this digital solution. We point out that mere distrusting strategies are insufficient for the ethically appropriate development of this digital solution, nor can they eliminate the need for institutional trust that plays an essential role in fostering voluntary support for this solution. To reach well-grounded trust in both an ethical and epistemological sense, we argue that trust in institutions concerning personal data protection in the case of digital contact tracing ought to be built on the relevant institutions' and individuals' goodwill towards the public and their competence in improving the actual effectiveness of this solution. We conclude by clarifying three dimensions, including the purpose, procedure, and outcome, where the relevant trustees can work to signal and justify their intentions and increase their trustworthiness via an effective communication strategy. Given the complementary qualities shown by the distrusting and trusting strategies, a combined strategy including both sorts seems closer to what we expect from the responsible implementation of this digital solution, which could also improve the effectiveness of this institutional response.

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Fostering participation in digital contact tracing

Cited by 10 publications

References 139 publications

The Relative Importance of Vulnerability and Efficiency in COVID-19 Contact Tracing Programmes: A Discrete Choice Experiment

The Relative Importance of Vulnerability and Efficiency in COVID-19 Contact Tracing Programmes: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Privacy at risk? Understanding the perceived privacy protection of health code apps in China

Beyond legislation and technological design: The importance and implications of institutional trust for privacy issues of digital contact tracing

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