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Emerging technologies as the next pandemic?

Possible consequences of the Covid crisis for the future of responsible research and innovation

Author: Bernd Carsten Stahl

Published in: Ethics and Information Technology | Special Issue 1/2021

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Digital technology plays a key role during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is used to hunt for vaccination and treatment; it helps us collect and represent the data to understand the progress of the disease and it contributes to tracking and tracing infections. While these uses are generally well intentioned, they are also potentially problematic and call for external scrutiny and critique. In particular the Covid tracing apps are currently hotly debated and their technical, security or privacy implications raise significant amounts of concern (Morley et al. 2020). …

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Title: Emerging technologies as the next pandemic?
Possible consequences of the Covid crisis for the future of responsible research and innovation
Author: Bernd Carsten Stahl
Publication date: 14-09-2020
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Ethics and Information Technology / Issue Special Issue 1/2021
Print ISSN: 1388-1957
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8439
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09551-1

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