Contact tracing apps and values dilemmas: A privacy paradox in a neo-liberal world

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Highlights:

• Contact tracing as an extreme case of the privacy paradox: which values?

• Present benefits: freedom of movement, not morally responsible.

• Future risks: privacy, habituation to security policies and health.

• In crisis situations, contact tracing apps contribute to self-disciplining.

• French government plays on the paradox and downplays long term concerns.

摘要

•Contact tracing as an extreme case of the privacy paradox: which values?•Present benefits: freedom of movement, not morally responsible.•Future risks: privacy, habituation to security policies and health.•In crisis situations, contact tracing apps contribute to self-disciplining.•French government plays on the paradox and downplays long term concerns.

论文关键词:Contact tracing apps,Privacy paradox,Freedom of movement,Technology of the self,Health

论文评审过程:Received 14 June 2020, Accepted 14 June 2020, Available online 30 June 2020, Version of Record 19 October 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102178