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Article: When privacy, distrust, and misinformation cause worry about using COVID-19 contact-tracing apps
| Title | When privacy, distrust, and misinformation cause worry about using COVID-19 contact-tracing apps |
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| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2023 |
| Publisher | IEEE. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.computer.org/internet |
| Citation | IEEE Internet Computing, 2023 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | Public health authorities worldwide are advocating for contact-tracing apps to help track COVID-19 infections during the pandemic and interrupt virus transmission. However, app users have to share their personally identifiable information, whereabouts, and in some cases, their vaccination records with authorities via mobile Internet. This situation creates grave concerns about how such personal information is transmitted, stored, archived, and disposed. In addition, the apps' technical design would also impact the adoption, such as whether the apps would drain the battery. Further, citizens' high distrust of governments also reduces app adoption. This article reviews recent research on contact-tracing apps and examines how privacy concerns, distrust in governments, and misinformation affect people's perceptions of contact-tracing apps. We recommend possible solutions for promoting these apps by analyzing what we learn from recent literature. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/324888 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Ho, KK | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Chiu, KWD | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Sayama, KL | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-20T01:40:02Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2023-02-20T01:40:02Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | IEEE Internet Computing, 2023 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/324888 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | Public health authorities worldwide are advocating for contact-tracing apps to help track COVID-19 infections during the pandemic and interrupt virus transmission. However, app users have to share their personally identifiable information, whereabouts, and in some cases, their vaccination records with authorities via mobile Internet. This situation creates grave concerns about how such personal information is transmitted, stored, archived, and disposed. In addition, the apps' technical design would also impact the adoption, such as whether the apps would drain the battery. Further, citizens' high distrust of governments also reduces app adoption. This article reviews recent research on contact-tracing apps and examines how privacy concerns, distrust in governments, and misinformation affect people's perceptions of contact-tracing apps. We recommend possible solutions for promoting these apps by analyzing what we learn from recent literature. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.publisher | IEEE. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.computer.org/internet | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | IEEE Internet Computing | - |
| dc.rights | IEEE Internet Computing. Copyright © IEEE. | - |
| dc.rights | ©20xx IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. | - |
| dc.title | When privacy, distrust, and misinformation cause worry about using COVID-19 contact-tracing apps | - |
| dc.type | Article | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Chiu, KWD: dchiu88@hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1109/MIC.2022.3225568 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 343763 | - |