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Health surveillance during covid-19 pandemic.
The BMJ ( IF 105.7 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-06 , DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m1373 Rafael A Calvo 1 , Sebastian Deterding 2 , Richard M Ryan 3
The BMJ ( IF 105.7 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-06 , DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m1373 Rafael A Calvo 1 , Sebastian Deterding 2 , Richard M Ryan 3
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How to safeguard autonomy and why it matters 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 controlling the epidemic than mass quarantine.1 The Israeli government, for example, authorised the repurposing of an anti-terror phone tracking programme, trawling the location histories of its whole population to monitor and enforce self-isolation of people who tested positive. Israel’s health ministry has since launched a mobile app allowing citizens to check whether they have crossed paths with anyone infected and need to self-isolate.2 In China, two big providers of mobile payment …
更新日期：2020-04-06
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