Behavioral intention & use behavior of citizens in Iligan city towards the staysafe.ph application during the covid 19 pandemic by Ramos Ynah Isabelle, Jovita-Olvez Hazel, Tomaro Queenie Pearl, Batara Enrique B.

“…Prior research in contact-tracing apps focuses solely on measuring people’s intentions to use the app. …”
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Kemeny-based testing for COVID-19. by Serife Yilmaz, Ekaterina Dudkina, Michelangelo Bin, Emanuele Crisostomi, Pietro Ferraro, Roderick Murray-Smith, Thomas Parisini, Lewi Stone, Robert Shorten

“…Testing, tracking and tracing abilities have been identified as pivotal in helping countries to safely reopen activities after the first wave of the COVID-19 virus. Contact tracing apps give the unprecedented possibility to reconstruct graphs of daily contacts, so the question is: who should be tested? …”
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CROSS-BORDER HEALTH DATA FROM LEGISLATION TO IMPLEMENTATION A CRITICAL DISCURSIVE APPROACH TO COVID-19 RESPONSES by Maria Cristina Paganoni

“…However, the tech solutionist position that strives for full interoperability of systems in public health (as for contact tracing apps) often disregards the ethical, legal and social issues related to the use of technology itself, i. e. data protection, impact and trust. …”
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A Second-Order Disaster? Digital Technologies During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Mirca Madianou

“…Applications such as contact tracing apps raise concerns about “function creep”—the reuse of data for different purposes than the one for which they were originally collected—while they normalize surveillance which has been traditionally used on marginalized communities. …”
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From Shadow Profiles to Contact Tracing: Qualitative Research into Consent and Privacy by Sacha Molitorisz, James Meese, Jennifer Hagedorn

“…These focus groups included discussion of four case studies: ‘shadow profiles’, eavesdropping by companies on smartphone users, non-consensual government surveillance of its citizens and contact tracing apps developed to combat COVID-19. Our participants expressed concerns about these practices and said they valued individual consent and saw it as a key element of privacy protection. …”
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More Than Just Privacy: Using Contextual Integrity to Evaluate the Long-Term Risks from COVID-19 Surveillance Technologies by Jessica Vitak, Michael Zimmer

“…In this essay, we evaluate contact tracing apps, which have been offered as a technological solution to minimize the spread of COVID-19. …”
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From Pandemic Control to Data-Driven Governance: The Case of China’s Health Code by Wanshu Cong

“…This article provides a detailed analysis of the health code, draws comparison with the contact tracing apps developed by Google and Apple, and seeks to understand the specifications and contradictions internal to the health code’s development and deployment in China. …”
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Covid-19 digital contact tracing with sequence embedding by Li, Bingzi

“…This project aims to propose a novel digital contact tracing solution TracingwPrivacy with privacy preserved for users, and deliver a Proof of Concept for the solution. The current contact tracing apps and QR code solutions are either centralised systems that send every users’ data to the government database or partially decentralised systems where the government maintains COVID-19 patients’ and all their contacts’ data. …”
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Digital doubters in different political and cultural contexts: Comparing citizen attitudes across three major digital technologies by Genia Kostka

“…By using an online survey dataset on public opinion about facial recognition technology, contact tracing apps, and the social credit system in China, Germany, the US, and the UK, this article shows that these studies have overlooked a small yet significant group of digital technology doubters. …”
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The Corona Immunitas Digital Follow-Up eCohort to Monitor Impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in Switzerland: Study Protocol and First Results by Alexandre Speierer, Alexandre Speierer, Patricia O. Chocano-Bedoya, Patricia O. Chocano-Bedoya, Daniela Anker, Alexia Schmid, Dirk Keidel, Dirk Keidel, Thomas Vermes, Thomas Vermes, Medea Imboden, Medea Imboden, Sara Levati, Giovanni Franscella, Laurie Corna, Rebecca Amati, Erika Harju, Chantal Luedi, Gisela Michel, Caroline Veys-Takeuchi, Claire Zuppinger, Semira Gonseth Nusslé, Valérie D’Acremont, Ismaël Tall, Éric Salberg, Hélène Baysson, Hélène Baysson, Elsa Lorthe, Francesco Pennacchio, Anja Frei, Marco Kaufmann, Marco Geigges, Erin Ashley West, Nathalie Schwab, Nathalie Schwab, Stéphane Cullati, Stéphane Cullati, Arnaud Chiolero, Arnaud Chiolero, Christian Kahlert, Christian Kahlert, Silvia Stringhini, Silvia Stringhini, Silvia Stringhini, Fabian Vollrath, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Nicolas Rodondi, Nicolas Rodondi, Milo A. Puhan, Viktor von Wyl

“…Monthly questionnaires cover additional prevention adherence, contact tracing apps use, vaccination and vaccine hesitancy, and socio-economic changes.Results: We report data from the 5 centres that enrolled in the CI-DFU between June and October 2020 (covering Basel City/Land, Fribourg, Neuchâtel, Ticino, Zurich). …”
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Psychological factors shaping public responses to COVID-19 digital contact tracing technologies in Germany by Anastasia Kozyreva, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Stephan Lewandowsky, Paul M. Garrett, Stefan M. Herzog, Thorsten Pachur, Ralph Hertwig

“…Intentions to use contact tracing apps—hypothetical ones or the Corona-Warn-App launched in Germany in June 2020—were high. …”
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Contact-Tracing Technologies and the Problem of Trust—Framing a Right of Social Dialogue for an Impact Assessment Process in Pandemic Times by Rachelle Bosua, Damian Clifford, Megan Richardson

“…The Australian and Dutch pandemic contact-tracing apps considered in this article suggest part of an answer to this question. …”
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Evaluating the trade-off between privacy, public health safety, and digital security in a pandemic by Titi Akinsanmi, Aishat Salami

“…This paper makes a case for maintaining a balance between the benefit, which the contact tracing apps offer in the containment of COVID-19 with the need to ensure end-user privacy and data security. …”
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The effect of notification window length on the epidemiological impact of COVID-19 contact tracing mobile applications by Leng, T, Hill, EM, Keeling, MJ, Tildesley, MJ, Thompson, RN

“…</p> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Our results demonstrate the importance of understanding adherence to interventions when setting notification windows for COVID-19 contact tracing apps.</p>…”

A review of security concern on COVID-19 tracing application. by Mohd. Aris, Siti Armiza, Abdullah Shml, Ebrahim Mubarak

“…In response, many governments have shown great interest in smartphone contact tracing apps that help automate the difficult task of tracing all recent contacts of newly identified infected individuals. …”
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The Role of Transparency, Trust, and Social Influence on Uncertainty Reduction in Times of Pandemics: Empirical Study on the Adoption of COVID-19 Tracing Apps by Oldeweme, Andreas, Märtins, Julian, Westmattelmann, Daniel, Schewe, Gerhard

“…BackgroundContact tracing apps are an essential component of an effective COVID-19 testing strategy to counteract the spread of the pandemic and thereby avoid overburdening the health care system. …”
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Models for Digitally Contact-Traced Epidemics by Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti

“…However, the required penetration of contact tracing apps within a population to achieve a desired target in controlling the epidemic is currently under discussion within the research community. …”
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Determinants for university students’ location data sharing with public institutions during COVID-19: The Italian case by Valeria M. Urbano, Federico Bartolomucci, Giovanni Azzone

“…However, individuals’ low consent to share their data, proved by the low penetration rate of contact tracing apps in several countries during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, re-opened the scientific and practitioners’ discussion on factors and conditions triggering citizens to share their positioning data. …”
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Data privacy during pandemics: a systematic literature review of COVID-19 smartphone applications by Amany Alshawi, Muna Al-Razgan, Fatima H. AlKallas, Raghad Abdullah Bin Suhaim, Reem Al-Tamimi, Norah Alharbi, Sarah Omar AlSaif

“…Conclusions Governments need to address the privacy issues related to contact tracing apps. This can be done through enforcing special policies to guarantee users privacy. …”
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A Pandemic of Prediction: On the Circulation of Contagion Models between Public Health and Public Safety by Maximilian Heimstädt, Simon Egbert, Elena Esposito

“…The expectation that in the future the predictive capacities of digital contact tracing apps might spill over from public health to policing is currently shaping the development and use of tools such as the Corona-Warn-App in Germany. …”
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