Several digital contact tracing smartphone applications have been developed worldwide in
the effort to combat COVID-19 that warn users of potential exposure to infectious patients …

In this paper we discuss ethical implications of the use of mobile phone apps in the control of
the COVID-19 pandemic. Contact tracing is a well-established feature of public health …

Contact tracing has become a vital tool for public health officials to effectively combat the
spread of new diseases, such as the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19. Contact tracing …

Among the most critical strategies in the fight against the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19)
is the rapid tracing and notification of potentially infected persons. Several nations have …

This paper discusses the aspects of data reliability and user privacy for the emerging
practice of mobile phone based contact tracing for the COVID-19 pandemic. Various …

Apps that enable contact-tracing are instrumental in mitigating the transmission of COVID-
19, but there have been concerns among users about the data collected by these apps and …

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, high hopes were placed on digital contact
tracing. Digital contact tracing apps can now be downloaded in many countries, but as …

Countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with various levels of restrictions and
lockdown in an effort to save lives and prevent the saturation and collapse of national health …

Background: Contact tracing is a widely adopted surveillance system that is used to identify,
evaluate, and handle people who have been exposed to novel infectious diseases. The …

Contact-tracing apps have 5 major limitations. First, the effectiveness of a contact-tracing
app is dependent on the degree of adoption: an app's potential to identify contacts varies …