2021
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245740
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Public acceptance of privacy-encroaching policies to address the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom

Abstract: The nature of the COVID-19 pandemic may require governments to use privacy-encroaching technologies to help contain its spread. One technology involves co-location tracking through mobile Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth to permit health agencies to monitor people’s contact with each other, thereby triggering targeted social-distancing when a person turns out to be infected. The effectiveness of tracking relies on the willingness of the population to support such privacy encroaching measures. We report the results of… Show more

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“…While three were available on pre-print servers, most were unlikely to be published in peer reviewed journals and were often released as public opinion surveys. However, it is worth noting that, where they addressed similar questions, findings from the high-quality studies [ 31 , 33 ] were similar to those from studies judged to be medium [ 32 , 34 , 35 ] or low [ 39 ] quality (i.e., of greater risk of bias).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 72%
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“…While three were available on pre-print servers, most were unlikely to be published in peer reviewed journals and were often released as public opinion surveys. However, it is worth noting that, where they addressed similar questions, findings from the high-quality studies [ 31 , 33 ] were similar to those from studies judged to be medium [ 32 , 34 , 35 ] or low [ 39 ] quality (i.e., of greater risk of bias).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 72%
“…The percentage in favour of immunity certificates for use for the right to work was much lower than in the case of travel. Across three studies in three countries carried out in April – September (n ranging from 1000 to 1500) support ranged from 20 to 51% [ 31 , 33 , 39 ].…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Where location tracking is used, it should be an opt-in feature [121] because invasion of personal privacy can be a significant deterrent to downloading and using a DCTA, and the use of geolocation data has recently been the cause of privacy losing events associated with app use [85,140].…”
Section: Accountabilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There should be an agreed timeline and criteria for when the API and DCTA infrastructure is to be dismantled [76,121,124,141] because there are significant privacy concerns that technology companies and governments could use DCTAs to enable greater surveillance after the pandemic [26,37,65,66,76]. Using an API comes with the risk that personal data may be misused or processed unlawfully.…”
Section: Accountabilitymentioning
confidence: 99%