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Month: November 2020


Attitudes to digital contact tracing: citizens do not always prioritise privacy and prefer a centralised NHS system over a decentralised one.

Citizensā€™ concerns about data privacy may reduce adoption of COVID-19 contact tracing apps, making them less effective. Based onĀ a choice experiment (conjoint experiment), Laszlo Horvath,Ā Susan Banducci, andĀ Oliver JamesĀ find that citizens do not always prioritise privacy and prefer a centralised NHS system.Ā They also find support for a mixture of contact tracing done digitally with limited human […]


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