Public acceptance of privacy-encroaching policies to address the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.
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SUBMITTER: Lewandowsky S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7822290 | biostudies-literature | 2021
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Public acceptance of privacy-encroaching policies to address the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.
Lewandowsky Stephan S Dennis Simon S Perfors Andrew A Kashima Yoshihisa Y White Joshua P JP Garrett Paul P Little Daniel R DR Yesilada Muhsin M
PloS one 20210122 1
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 ...[more]
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