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JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2452) Digital Contact Tracing, Digital Proximity Tracing, Precision Public Health (148) Outbreak and Pandemic Preparedness and Management (1727) Participatory Epidemiology and Surveillance (119) Surveillance Systems (462) Theme Issue: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak Rapid Reports (1517) Security and Privacy of mHealth and uHealth (124)

Published on in Vol 23, No 2 (2021): February

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/23467, first published .
Technology, Privacy, and User Opinions of COVID-19 Mobile Apps for Contact Tracing: Systematic Search and Content Analysis

Technology, Privacy, and User Opinions of COVID-19 Mobile Apps for Contact Tracing: Systematic Search and Content Analysis

Technology, Privacy, and User Opinions of COVID-19 Mobile Apps for Contact Tracing: Systematic Search and Content Analysis

Authors of this article:

Mahmoud Elkhodr1 Author Orcid Image ;   Omar Mubin2 Author Orcid Image ;   Zainab Iftikhar3 Author Orcid Image ;   Maleeha Masood3 Author Orcid Image ;   Belal Alsinglawi2 Author Orcid Image ;   Suleman Shahid3 Author Orcid Image ;   Fady Alnajjar4 Author Orcid Image
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