Contact tracing apps and values dilemmas: A privacy paradox in a neoliberal world
Contact tracing apps and values dilemmas: A privacy paradox in a neoliberal world
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10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102178
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发表时间：
2020-12-01
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21
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Rowe, Frantz
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作者：
Rowe, Frantz
联系人追踪应用程序被作为一种解决方案提出，如果不是解决方案的话，以遏制新冠肺炎危机中的流行病。在法国，尽管公共机构就隐私相关问题展开了激烈的辩论，但这款应用被政府视为保护健康和生命的重要好处，从而避免了政客和公民都感到道德上的责任和看起来有负罪感，并被视为恢复我们行动自由的关键。然而，我们认为，尽管在10天和100万次应用程序下载后仍未报告病例-这种情况与澳大利亚一个月前推出其应用程序的情况相当-但该应用程序的采用对我们的信息隐私、监控和对安全策略的习惯性产生了重大风险。它还可能造成歧视、不信任，并产生其他健康问题，如成瘾和其他问题，因为5G技术继续在没有事先影响研究的情况下部署。最后，针对令人恶心的流行病的智能手机应用程序似乎是隐私悖论的一个极端案例，在这种情况下，政府利用眼前利益，淡化长期关切，同时诱导一种自我技术。联系人追踪应用程序可能会成为西方世界数字化转型和价值观变化的标志性案例。
Contact tracing apps are presented as a solution, if not the solution, to curb pandemics in the Covid-19 crisis. In France, despite heated public institutional debate on privacy related issues, the app was presented by government as an essential benefit for protecting health and lives, thus avoiding both politicians and citizens to feel morally responsible and looking guilty, and as essential to recover our freedom to move. However we argue that, while detection of cases have still not been reported after 10 days and one million app downloads - a situation comparable to Australia who launched its app a month before -, the adoption of the app generates important risks to our informational privacy, surveillance and habituation to security policies. It also may create discrimination, distrust and generate other health problems such as addiction and others as 5G technology continues to be deployed without prior impact studies. Finally the smartphone app against covid epidemics appears as an extreme case of the privacy paradox where the government plays on the immediate benefits and downplays long-term concerns while inducing a technology of self. Contact tracing apps may become an emblematic case for digital transformation and value changes in the western world.