Description: An introduction to the technology of contact tracing and its usefulness for public health, considering questions of efficacy, equity, and privacy.
How do you stop a pandemic before a vaccine arrives? Contact tracing is key, the first step in a process that has proven effective: trace, test, and isolate. Smartphones can collect some of the information required by contact tracers--not just where you've been but also who's been near you. Can we repurpose the tracking technology that we carry with us--devices with GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and social media connectivity--to serve public health in a pandemic? In People Count, cybersecurity expert Susan Landau looks at some of the apps developed for contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that issues of effectiveness and equity intersect.
Landau explains the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of a range of technological interventions, including dongles in Singapore that collect proximity information; India's biometric national identity system; Harvard University's experiment, TraceFi; and China's surveillance network. Other nations rejected China-style surveillance in favor of systems based on Bluetooth, GPS, and cell towers, but Landau explains the limitations of these technologies. She also reports that many current apps appear to be premised on a model of middle-class income and a job that can be done remotely. How can they be effective when low-income communities and front-line workers are the ones who are hit hardest by the virus? COVID-19 will not be our last pandemic; we need to get this essential method of infection control right.
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Book Title: People Count Format: Hardback
Genre: General/trade
Narrative Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Name: People Count : Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health
Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Public Health, Databases / Data Mining, Epidemiology
Publication Year: 2021
Item Weight: 12.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Computers, Medical
Item Length: 8.3 in
Author: Susan Landau
Item Width: 5.6 in
Format: Hardcover
