Discuss how does Coronavirus contact tracing poses serious threats to our privacy?
Would your problem identified in unit 2 lend itself to a qualitative or quantitative design? What level of evidence (research design) would best address the problem? Explain your answer.Unit 2 ProblemHealth workers use various tools and resources to get digital information for application in health care. My PICOT question for research, In patients diagnosed with COVID-19 (P), by sharing health status via a tracking tool (I), as oppose to those that do not (C) will a reduction of spread occur (O) during the incubation period. Today, many countries have contact tracing apps to address or contain the current outbreak, COVID-19. The app keeps anonymous data of persons the phone’s owner has contacted. The data stays on the smartphone until the owner becomes symptomatic. In this manner, the symptomatic person will permit his or her phone to submit data to the tracing app, notifying all those they made contact that they could be infected (Young & Holton, 2020). While this app has many benefits, privacy concerns override key benefits related to tracing and social distancing. Several apps come with a Bluetooth that determines the number of people a person has come into contact with because one Bluetooth is designed to match others. Besides, some apps can create logs or send data to a central server on the number of contacts a person has made. Elsewhere, some apps allow automatic location access while others bar this data until the user permits or is asked to provide additional details on where he or she made certain contacts.Contact tracing apps highlight the growing challenge of using private data to safeguard health. Governments want to contain COVID-19 at the expense of civil liberties. Therefore, the overall take away is that patients must sacrifice some values, especially privacy, to be healthy. Still, to lessen costs, authorities must agree on when the surveillance should end and how the collected data will be deleted after serving the anticipated purpose (Mauro, 2020).ReferencesMauro, A. (2020). Coronavirus contact tracing poses serious threats to our privacy. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-contact-tracing-poses-serious-threats-to-our-privacy-137073
