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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) Theme Issue: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak Rapid Reports (1517) Ethics, Privacy, and Legal Issues (479) Infectious Diseases (non-STD/STI) (1575) Security and Privacy of mHealth and uHealth (124) Theme Issue: Apps for COVID-19 (#Apps4Covid) (136) Surveillance Systems (462) Innovative Methods in Public Health and Surveillance (332) Participatory Epidemiology and Surveillance (119)

Published on in Vol 23, No 3 (2021): March

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/25726, first published .
Adoption of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: A Balance Between Privacy and Effectiveness

Adoption of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: A Balance Between Privacy and Effectiveness

Adoption of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: A Balance Between Privacy and Effectiveness

Authors of this article:

Emily Seto1, 2, 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Priyanka Challa1 Author Orcid Image ;   Patrick Ware2 Author Orcid Image
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