Americans' perceptions of privacy and surveillance in the COVID-19 pandemic
Abstract: Objective: To study the U.S. public’s attitudes toward surveillance measures aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, particularly smartphone applications (apps) that supplement traditional contact tracing. Method: We deployed a survey of approximately 2,000 American adults to measure support for nine COVID-19 surveillance measures. We assessed attitudes toward contact tracing apps by manipulating six different attributes of a hypothetical app through a conjoint analysis experiment. Results: A smaller percentage of respondents support the government encouraging everyone to download and use contact tracing apps (42%) compared with other surveillance measures such as enforcing temperature checks (62%), expanding traditional contact tracing (57%), carrying out centralized quarantine (49%), deploying electronic device monitoring (44%), or implementing immunity passes (44%). Despite partisan differences on a range of surveillance measures, support for the government encouraging digital
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: PLOS ONE ; 15 (2020) 12 ; 1-16
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
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2020
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Zhang, Baobao
Kreps, Sarah
McMurry, Nina
McCain, R. Miles
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10.1371/journal.pone.0242652
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022090115124148145576
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Zhang, Baobao
- Kreps, Sarah
- McMurry, Nina
- McCain, R. Miles
- SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
Time of origin
- 2020
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