Ethics of digital contact tracing and COVID-19: who is (not) free to go?

Ethics of digital contact tracing and COVID-19: who is (not) free to go?  discusses how digital tracing technologies are considered an effective way of containing SARS-CoV-2 faster than it is spreading, and thereby allowing the possibility of easing measures of population-wide quarantine. However, there are significant risks that tracing apps will fail to reduce the number of people in quarantine, while introducing new psychological, social, economic and political risks related to these large scale technological experiments.

Author Dr. M.B.O.T. (Michael) Klenk is a lecturer in ethics and the philosophy of technology. His research is at the intersection of metaetchics, epistemology and moral psychology. Before this, he worked as a management consultant at Atos Consulting in Munich.

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