In defence of digital contact-tracing: human rights, South Korea and Covid-19

Article by Mark Ryan. Vol. 16, Issue 4. International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications. August 6, 2020.

Article by Mark Ryan. Vol. 16, Issue 4. International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications.

August 6, 2020.

The media has even been very critical of some East Asian countries’ use of digital contact-tracing to control Covid-19. For example, South Korea has been criticised for its use of privacy-infringing digital contact-tracing. However, whether their type of digital contact-tracing was unnecessarily harmful to the human rights of Korean citizens is open for debate. The purpose of this paper is to examine this criticism to see if Korea’s digital contact-tracing is ethically justifiable.

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