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Privacy, Technology and Public Health: an Ethical Reflection with a Particular Focus on the Covid-19 Crisis Case
Dalmazzo, Francesca
Dalmazzo, Francesca
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This thesis will primarily investigate the ethics of developing technology as a tool for aiding public safety and public health. Since recent technological advances have become more and more pervasive, people’s personal data is consequently monitored through technologies such as social media, tracking apps, and cameras. Therefore, this has given rise to worries about privacy and, in particular, worries about people’s control over their personal information. In my project, I examine some ethical considerations regarding the use of technology to monitor people’s private lives, in order to contain health disasters such as a pandemic. More specifically, I focus on the Immuni app currently being used in Italy with the aim of containing the spread of Covid-19. I explore considerations that can help us find an equilibrium between personal privacy and the good of public health. I also focus on the obligatoriness-voluntariness dichotomy that may arise when it comes to downloading tracking apps. In this project, I assume the consequentialist moral theory utilitarianism, and conduct my investigation from that perspective.
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Thesis (B.A. in Humanistic Studies, Minor in Psychology)--John Cabot University, Spring 2021.
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2021
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COVID-19
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Dalmazzo, Fancesca. "Privacy, Technology and Public Health: an Ethical Reflection with a Particular Focus on the Covid-19 Crisis Case". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2021.