Tracking quarantine, tracing cases, sharing info: Can these govt-issued apps help fight Covid-19?
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| contents | <p>A review of official Covid-19 apps shows a wide range of functional (and non-functional) software, with a worrying disregard for privacy.</p> <p>A slew of mobile apps and other Internet-based interventions have been released by governments and private entities around the world. I conducted a preliminary review of the apps released in India, based on publicly available information such as the app store listing and government orders. The findings of the review raise two major concerns: </p> <ol> <li>Technical and usability issues that prevent quarantined users and the rest of the public from meaningfully using the apps</li> <li>Privacy of apps users as well as those identified as at-risk and/ or quarantined.</li> </ol> <p>Most of the apps released in India at the time of writing are meant for one or more of these purposes: Ensure compliance with quarantine rules, provide information about symptoms and healthcare, and updates about the outbreak, tracing of confirmed and at-risk cases, tracing contact history with confirmed and at-risk cases. </p> <p>This article was first published in April 2020 on Citizen Matters at <a href="https://citizenmatters.in/tracking-quarantine-tracing-cases-sharing-info-can-these-govt-issued-apps-help-fight-covid-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://citizenmatters.in/tracking-quarantine-tracing-cases-sharing-info-can-these-govt-issued-apps-help-fight-covid-19/</a></p> <p><strong>Dataset</strong></p> <p>Also see this survey of Covid-19 apps in India I first published in June 2020: <a href="../records/12634310" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://zenodo.org/records/12634310</a></p> <p><strong>Video</strong></p> <p>Details of my recorded talk on the topic "Usability and privacy issues in government-issued Covid-19 apps in India" hosted by Hasgeek and Thus Critique, June 2020: <a href="https://hasgeek.com/thus/usability-and-privacy-issues-in-government-issued-covid-19-apps-in-india2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://hasgeek.com/thus/usability-and-privacy-issues-in-government-issued-covid-19-apps-in-india2/</a></p> <p>Video of the talk: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2fjZIIbALc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2fjZIIbALc</a></p> |
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| spellingShingle | Tracking quarantine, tracing cases, sharing info: Can these govt-issued apps help fight Covid-19? Lakshané, Rohini Covid-19 COVID-19 quarantine apps Covid-19 suveillance <p>A review of official Covid-19 apps shows a wide range of functional (and non-functional) software, with a worrying disregard for privacy.</p> <p>A slew of mobile apps and other Internet-based interventions have been released by governments and private entities around the world. I conducted a preliminary review of the apps released in India, based on publicly available information such as the app store listing and government orders. The findings of the review raise two major concerns: </p> <ol> <li>Technical and usability issues that prevent quarantined users and the rest of the public from meaningfully using the apps</li> <li>Privacy of apps users as well as those identified as at-risk and/ or quarantined.</li> </ol> <p>Most of the apps released in India at the time of writing are meant for one or more of these purposes: Ensure compliance with quarantine rules, provide information about symptoms and healthcare, and updates about the outbreak, tracing of confirmed and at-risk cases, tracing contact history with confirmed and at-risk cases. </p> <p>This article was first published in April 2020 on Citizen Matters at <a href="https://citizenmatters.in/tracking-quarantine-tracing-cases-sharing-info-can-these-govt-issued-apps-help-fight-covid-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://citizenmatters.in/tracking-quarantine-tracing-cases-sharing-info-can-these-govt-issued-apps-help-fight-covid-19/</a></p> <p><strong>Dataset</strong></p> <p>Also see this survey of Covid-19 apps in India I first published in June 2020: <a href="../records/12634310" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://zenodo.org/records/12634310</a></p> <p><strong>Video</strong></p> <p>Details of my recorded talk on the topic "Usability and privacy issues in government-issued Covid-19 apps in India" hosted by Hasgeek and Thus Critique, June 2020: <a href="https://hasgeek.com/thus/usability-and-privacy-issues-in-government-issued-covid-19-apps-in-india2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://hasgeek.com/thus/usability-and-privacy-issues-in-government-issued-covid-19-apps-in-india2/</a></p> <p>Video of the talk: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2fjZIIbALc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2fjZIIbALc</a></p> |
| title | Tracking quarantine, tracing cases, sharing info: Can these govt-issued apps help fight Covid-19? |
| topic | Covid-19 COVID-19 quarantine apps Covid-19 suveillance |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12634436 |