Just Plain Dumb?: How Digital Contact Tracing Apps Could’ve Worked Better (And Why They Never Got the Chance)

Authors

Brian E. Ray, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2021

Publication Title

Seton Hall Law Review

Keywords

COVID-19, apps, contact tracing, privacy, Google, Apple

Abstract

This essay describes how the privacy debate that emerged over digital contact tracing and Google’s and Apple’s decisions to strictly limit apps permitted to use their platforms resulted in undercutting their potential usefulness as a tool to combat the pandemic while still failing to engender trust in these tools as intended.

Repository Citation

Ray, Brian E., "Just Plain Dumb?: How Digital Contact Tracing Apps Could’ve Worked Better (And Why They Never Got the Chance)" (2021). Law Faculty Articles and Essays. 1197.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/fac_articles/1197

Volume

51

Issue

5