Health surveillance during covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

Societies are responding to the covid-19 pandemic at breathtaking speed.Many of these ad hoc responses will have long lasting consequences, and we must make sure that today's efforts do not threaten our future wellbeing.The most consequential transformations may come from new health surveillance technologies that use machine learning and automated decision making to parse people's digital footprints, identify those who are potentially infected, trace their contacts, and enforce social distancing.Some have argued that such digital contact tracing could be more effective in

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