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Digital Surveillance Technologies to Combat COVID-19: A Contemporary View
Since the genesis case was confirmed in Wuhan, China in late 2019, the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been spreading all over the world at an accelerating rate. Almost immediately, IoT technologies were deployed in various surveillance scenarios as part of an effort to combat the pand...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8191522/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34131451 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2021.05.005 |
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author | Kassab, Mohamad Graciano Neto, Valdemar Vicente |
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description | Since the genesis case was confirmed in Wuhan, China in late 2019, the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been spreading all over the world at an accelerating rate. Almost immediately, IoT technologies were deployed in various surveillance scenarios as part of an effort to combat the pandemic. Among the emerging solutions, contact tracing mobile applications have been playing an effective role to help stem the spread of the virus by tracking individuals and those they come into exposure with. This paper aims at providing a panoramic view of the digital tracking technologies that have been utilized so far in response to the pandemic. We particularly provide a detailed analysis of 47 contact tracing mobile applications that emerged in response to COVID-19. We accompany our analysis with a discussion on the privacy and the technology / social constraints that may challenge the deployment of these applications as digital surveillance platforms. |
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spelling | pubmed-81915222021-06-11 Digital Surveillance Technologies to Combat COVID-19: A Contemporary View Kassab, Mohamad Graciano Neto, Valdemar Vicente Procedia Comput Sci Article Since the genesis case was confirmed in Wuhan, China in late 2019, the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been spreading all over the world at an accelerating rate. Almost immediately, IoT technologies were deployed in various surveillance scenarios as part of an effort to combat the pandemic. Among the emerging solutions, contact tracing mobile applications have been playing an effective role to help stem the spread of the virus by tracking individuals and those they come into exposure with. This paper aims at providing a panoramic view of the digital tracking technologies that have been utilized so far in response to the pandemic. We particularly provide a detailed analysis of 47 contact tracing mobile applications that emerged in response to COVID-19. We accompany our analysis with a discussion on the privacy and the technology / social constraints that may challenge the deployment of these applications as digital surveillance platforms. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021 2021-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8191522/ /pubmed/34131451 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2021.05.005 Text en © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Kassab, Mohamad Graciano Neto, Valdemar Vicente Digital Surveillance Technologies to Combat COVID-19: A Contemporary View |
title | Digital Surveillance Technologies to Combat COVID-19: A Contemporary View |
title_full | Digital Surveillance Technologies to Combat COVID-19: A Contemporary View |
title_fullStr | Digital Surveillance Technologies to Combat COVID-19: A Contemporary View |
title_full_unstemmed | Digital Surveillance Technologies to Combat COVID-19: A Contemporary View |
title_short | Digital Surveillance Technologies to Combat COVID-19: A Contemporary View |
title_sort | digital surveillance technologies to combat covid-19: a contemporary view |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8191522/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34131451 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2021.05.005 |
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