Short description:

As the COVID-19 pandemic surged in 2020, questions of data privacy, cybersecurity, and the ethics of surveillance technologies centred an international conversation on the benefits and disadvantages of the appropriate uses and expansion of cyber surveillance and data tracking. This timely book examines and answers these important concerns.

Long description:

As the COVID-19 pandemic surged in 2020, questions of data privacy, cybersecurity, and ethics of the surveillance technologies centred an international conversation on the benefits and disadvantages of the appropriate uses and expansion of cyber surveillance and data tracking. This timely book examines and answers these important concerns.

Pandemic Surveillance frames and defines digital privacy and security in the context of emerging surveillance technologies, providing informed dialogue on international conversations regarding pandemic surveillance. The book examines the challenges of regulating pandemic surveillance technologies across diverse geographical settings, including Europe and Latin America, along with comparative analysis of social credit systems in China and the United States. Margaret Hu and her impressive selection of contributors explore the legal, scientific and ethical challenges in a world with a growing data surveillance architecture, providing policy recommendations and forward-looking solutions, including the importance of ethical frameworks, to minimise potential misuse and abuse of surveillance technologies.

Delivering a well-rounded examination of pandemic surveillance and data-tracking technologies, this book is a crucial read for researchers and scholars focused on information security and data privacy, including specialists in the area of cyber ethics and data ethics. Students and academics interested in health policy and bioethics will also benefit from the insights in this text.

?Ruptures can help us see society in new ways. By interrogating the surveillance practices during the COVID-19 pandemic from different angles, the essays in this book insightfully reveal a range of challenges to privacy in a data-saturated world.?

Table of Contents:

Contents:

Introduction 1
Margaret Hu

PART I DIGITAL PRIVACY, SECURITY, AND
EMERGING SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGIES
1 Mass surveillance in the age of COVID-19 6
Natalie Ram and David Gray
2 Balancing the pursuit of knowledge against the
preservation of privacy 27
Davi Ottenheimer
3 Surveillance and pandemic in Brazil: an essay in three acts 42
Nathalie Fragoso, Clarice Tavares, and Jade Becari
4 Frictionless pandemic surveillance and social credit systems 64
Margaret Hu
5 The developing narratives of pandemic surveillance 86
Joshua Fairfield

PART II CONTEXTUALIZING CHALLENGES IN
REGULATING PANDEMIC SURVEILLANCE
6 Pandemic surveillance and US foreign surveillance 105
Peter Margulies
7 Regulating privacy and data ethics in the context of the
UK?s contact tracing apps 114
Ian Brown
8 Privacy and pandemic surveillance apps in Latin America 136
María Soledad Segura
9 Implementing effective digital privacy policy: the road
ahead in post-pandemic times 148
Stuart N. Brotman
10 Tracing the invisible: information fiduciaries and the pandemic 158
Anne L. Washington and Lauren Rhue

PART III LEGAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
MOVING FORWARD
11 Pandemic surveillance: ethics at the intersection of
information, research, and health 187
Daniel Susser
12 Using personal data and data-driven technologies for
research and public health in the context of the COVID-19
pandemic 197
Bethânia de Araújo Almeida
13 Pandemic ethics: the intersection of technology, trust, and
privacy, and implications for marginalized communities 204
Jolynn Dellinger
14 Of pandemics and progress 216
Andrea M. Matwyshyn

Index