Privacy in Times of COVID-19: A Pilot Study in the Republic of Ireland

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security Pub Date : 2021-08-16 DOI:10.1145/3465481.3470096

G. Xie, P. Lohar, C. Florea, Malika Bendechache, R. Trestian, Rob Brennan, R. Connolly, Irina Tal

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Contact tracing apps used in tracing and mitigating the spread of COVID-19 have sparked discussions and controversies worldwide with major concerns around privacy. COVID Tracker app used in the Republic of Ireland was praised in general for the way it addressed privacy and was used as baseline for other contact tracing apps worldwide. The success of the app is dependent on the general public uptake, hence their voice and attitude is the one that really matters. This paper focuses on developing a survey and the methods aiming to examine the attitudes toward privacy during COVID-19 of the general public in the Republic of Ireland and their impact on the uptake of the COVID tracker app. Various privacy models are used and health belief model as well in this purpose. A pilot study with 286 participants show a change in attitude towards privacy during COVID-19 pandemic, with more people willing to share their data in the interest of saving lives. However, privacy attitudes are shown to have impacted the adoption of the app in Ireland.

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2019冠状病毒病时期的隐私:爱尔兰共和国的一项试点研究

用于追踪和缓解COVID-19传播的接触者追踪应用程序引发了全球范围内的讨论和争议，主要是对隐私的担忧。在爱尔兰共和国使用的COVID Tracker应用程序因其处理隐私的方式而受到普遍赞扬，并被用作全球其他接触者追踪应用程序的基准。应用的成功取决于大众的接受程度，因此他们的声音和态度才是真正重要的。本文的重点是开发一项调查和方法，旨在研究爱尔兰共和国公众在COVID-19期间对隐私的态度及其对COVID跟踪器应用程序的吸收的影响。为此目的使用了各种隐私模型和健康信念模型。一项针对286名参与者的试点研究显示，在COVID-19大流行期间，人们对隐私的态度发生了变化，更多人愿意为了拯救生命而分享他们的数据。然而，人们对隐私的态度影响了这款应用在爱尔兰的应用。

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