People Count

Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health

Susan Landau (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

120 Seiten

2021
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-04571-1 (ISBN)

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An introduction to the technology of contact tracing and its usefulness for public health, considering questions of efficacy, equity, and privacy. Contact tracing is key to containing and controlling the spread of a virus in a pandemic. South Korea, China, and Singapore were among the few countries that quickly employed contact tracing after the emergence of COVID-19; the United States did not. In People Count, cybersecurity expert Susan Landau offers an accessible examination of the technology and efficacy of contact tracing in a pandemic. Can we repurpose the tracking technology that we carry with us--devices with GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and social media connectivity--to serve public health in a pandemic?

Susan Landau is Bridge Professor of Cyber Security and Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and at the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, at Tufts University. She is the coauthor of Privacy on the Line (MIT Press) and the author of Surveillance or Security? (MIT Press) and Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.04.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Technik
ISBN-10	0-262-04571-0 / 0262045710
ISBN-13	978-0-262-04571-1 / 9780262045711
Zustand	Neuware