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COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Data Protection Can Go Together

Johannes Abeler Matthias Bäcker Ulf Buermeyer Hannah Zillessen

JMIR mhealth and uhealth
Apr 15, 2020
JMIR Publications

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We discuss the implementation of app-based contact tracing to control the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and discuss its data protection and user acceptability aspects.

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DOI: 10.2196/19359
OpenAlex: W3016003958
Document type: article
Language: EN
Source: JMIR mhealth and uhealth
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