Just Plain Dumb?: How Digital Contact Tracing Apps Could’ve Worked Better (And Why They Never Got the Chance)

Brian E. Ray

Just Plain Dumb?: How Digital Contact Tracing Apps Could’ve Worked Better (And Why They Never Got the Chance)

Brian E. Ray

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Abstract

This essay describes how the privacy debate that emerged over digital contact tracing and Google’s and Apple’s decisions to strictly limit apps permitted to use their platforms resulted in undercutting their potential usefulness as a tool to combat the pandemic while still failing to engender trust in these tools as intended.

Original language	American English
Journal	Seton Hall Law Review
Volume	51
State	Published - Jan 1 2021

Keywords

COVID-19
apps
contact tracing
privacy
Google
Apple

Disciplines

Health Law and Policy
Law
Privacy Law
Public Health
Science and Technology Law

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Just Plain Dumb?: How Digital Contact Tracing Apps Could’ve Worked Better (And Why They Never Got the Chance)

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