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Towards a new era of mass data collection: Assessing pandemic surveillance technologies to preserve user privacy

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  • Ribeiro-Navarrete, Samuel
  • Saura, Jose Ramon
  • Palacios-Marqués, Daniel

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Controlling the coronavirus pandemic is triggering a cross-border strategy by which national governments attempt to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. A response based on sharing facts about millions of private movements and a call to study information behavior during the global health crisis has been advised worldwide. The present study aims to identify the technologies to control the COVID-19 and future pandemics with massive data collection from users’ mobile devices. This research undertakes a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of the studies about the currently available methods, strategies, and actions to collect and analyze data from users’ mobile devices. In a total of 76 relevant studies, 13 technologies that are classified based on the following aspect of data and data management have been identified: (1) security; (2) destruction; (3) voluntary access; (4) time span; and (5) storage. In addition, in order to understand how these technologies can affect user privacy, 25 data points that these technologies could have access to if installed through mobile applications have been detected. The paper concludes with a discussion of important theoretical and practical implications of preserving user privacy and curbing COVID-19 infections in the global public health emergency situation.

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  • Ribeiro-Navarrete, Samuel & Saura, Jose Ramon & Palacios-Marqués, Daniel, 2021. "Towards a new era of mass data collection: Assessing pandemic surveillance technologies to preserve user privacy," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 167(C).
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    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120681
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