{"title":"Contact Tracing in the Context of COVID-19: Ethical Issues and Assessment","authors":"Adem Az, Zeynep Afra Akbıyık-Az","doi":"10.36519/KD.2021.04","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 outbreak spread like a forest fire in the first quarter of 2020. Until September, more than 26 million people were affected by this epidemic. It has been 9 months since the first case was seen. However, a curative treatment method or vaccine has not been developed yet. Today, the only approach that can prevent the outbreak is classical epidemic control approaches such as hygiene, case isolation, contact tracing and quarantine. Contact tracing aims to reduce the spread of the epidemic by trying to analyze the potential transmission routes of the infection at the individual level. In addition, it will be possible to prevent official measures such as the curfew taken to prevent the epidemic from spreading. However, when considering ways of communication between people, the epidemic knows no boundaries. Mobile applications and artificial intelligence can be successful in analyzing this contact chain. Even if protecting human life is the highest degree moral duty, these methods contain many ethical problems. The most violated ethical values because of these practices are privacy, confidentiality of information, civil freedom and autonomy. In this study, we will try to analyze the ethical problems that arise with contact tracing mobile applications in the context of COVID-19. © 2021, DOC Design and Informatics Co. Ltd.. All rights reserved.","PeriodicalId":17826,"journal":{"name":"Klimik Dergisi/Klimik Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"112","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Klimik Dergisi/Klimik Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.36519/KD.2021.04","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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COVID-19背景下的接触者追踪:伦理问题和评估
新冠肺炎疫情在2020年第一季度像森林大火一样蔓延。截至9月,已有2 600多万人受到这一流行病的影响。自发现首例病例以来已过去9个月。但是,目前还没有开发出治疗方法或疫苗。今天,唯一能够防止疫情爆发的方法是传统的流行病控制方法,如卫生、病例隔离、接触者追踪和隔离。接触者追踪旨在通过在个人层面分析感染的潜在传播途径来减少流行病的传播。此外,将有可能阻止为防止流行病蔓延而采取的宵禁等官方措施。然而,从人与人之间的交流方式来看,疫情是无国界的。移动应用程序和人工智能可以成功地分析这个联系链。即使保护人类生命是最高程度的道德责任,这些方法也包含许多伦理问题。由于这些做法,最受侵犯的伦理价值是隐私、信息保密、公民自由和自治。在本研究中,我们将尝试分析在COVID-19背景下接触者追踪移动应用程序出现的伦理问题。©2021,DOC Design and Informatics Co. Ltd。版权所有。
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