Citizens' attitudes to contact tracing apps
Horvath, Laszlo and Banducci, S. and James, O. (2022) Citizens' attitudes to contact tracing apps. Journal of Experimental Political Science 9 (1), pp. 1-13. ISSN 2052-2630.
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Abstract
Citizens’ concerns about data privacy and data security breaches may reduce the adoption of COVID-19 contact tracing mobile phone applications, making them less effective. We implement a choice experiment (conjoint experiment) where participants indicate which version of two contact tracing apps they would install, varying the apps’ privacy-preserving attributes. Citizens do not always prioritise privacy and prefer a centralised National Health Service system over a decentralised system. In a further study asking about participants’ preference for digital-only vs human-only contact tracing, we find a mixture of digital and human contact tracing is supported. We randomly allocated a subset of participants in each study to receive a stimulus priming data breach as a concern, before asking about contact tracing. The salient threat of unauthorised access or data theft does not significantly alter preferences in either study. We suggest COVID-19 and trust in a national public health service system mitigate respondents’ concerns about privacy.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | digital contact tracing, privacy, data breach, conjoint experiment |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Laszlo Horvath |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Sep 2021 15:23 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 18:12 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/45903 |
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