Ensuring social acceptability of technological tracking in the COVID-19 context

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Highlights:

• The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated the limits of current strategies of pandemic management.

• Governments have been considering or implementing various technology-based tracking and surveillance of their population.

• Technology tracking should be implemented in a manner that would be more socially acceptable.

• Some factors might impact social acceptability of technology tracking.

• Tracking need to be continuously assessed to avoid undue state control.

摘要

•The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated the limits of current strategies of pandemic management.•Governments have been considering or implementing various technology-based tracking and surveillance of their population.•Technology tracking should be implemented in a manner that would be more socially acceptable.•Some factors might impact social acceptability of technology tracking.•Tracking need to be continuously assessed to avoid undue state control.

论文关键词:Ethics,Individual liberties,Geolocalizing,Social acceptability,Technological tracking,Pandemic

论文评审过程:Received 23 June 2020, Revised 13 November 2020, Accepted 17 November 2020, Available online 22 November 2020, Version of Record 27 November 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106639