Date: 2022
Type: Contribution to book
Tracing transparency : public governance of algorithms and the experience of contact tracing apps
Francisco DE ABREU DUARTE and Francesca PALMIOTTO (eds), Sovereignty, technology and governance after COVID-19 : legal challenges in a post-pandemic Europe, Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2022, pp. 77-102
PALMIOTTO, Francesca, Tracing transparency : public governance of algorithms and the experience of contact tracing apps, in Francisco DE ABREU DUARTE and Francesca PALMIOTTO (eds), Sovereignty, technology and governance after COVID-19 : legal challenges in a post-pandemic Europe, Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2022, pp. 77-102
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75178
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In addressing the pandemic, contact tracing has been one of the most effective tools used worldwide. At the time of writing, contact tracing apps for proximity tracing have been launched or under test in the majority of EU Member States. The use of these apps has of course caused several concerns, especially with regard to the protection of privacy of individuals. While opinions largely differed with regard to the best technological solution to adopt, everybody agreed on the importance of one specific requirement: their full transparency. The idea that transparency can be a valid safeguard for the correct, secure and lawful use of digital applications is surely not new. The experience of contact tracing apps in EU can, however, provides an unprecedented occasion to test to the concept of algorithmic transparency empirically. This work aims at investigating firstly how transparency has been translated from theory to practice and secondly whether transparency was beneficial and useful using European contact tracing apps as case study. If the overall assessment will be positive, this work will also question whether transparency, as resulting from the experience with contact tracing apps, can represent a suitable model for the public governance of algorithms.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75178
ISBN: 9781509955985; 9781509956005
Publisher: Hart Publishing
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