The Constitutionality of Technology-Assisted Contact Tracing
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an impossible set of choices for governments, forcing them to weigh competing interests.

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an impossible set of choices for governments, forcing them to weigh competing interests.

We should try a crowdsourced, privately-run, anonymous, voluntary, and collaborative approach to contact tracing.

Until there is a vaccine or treatment for COVID-19, our economy and privacy will be at the mercy of imperfect technology used in the pandemic response.

Even if counterintuitive, mandatory private-by-design digital contact tracing is the only ethical option for fighting COVID-19.

By Leslie Francis and Margaret Pabst Battin This post is part II of a two-part series on pandemic control strategies in response to COVID-19. New testing methods may allow us to avoid many of the inequities and injustices of the traditional methods of pandemic control, if we can deploy them quickly enough.

Your life and the lives of many others may depend now on isolation, quarantine, cordon sanitaire, shelter in place, or physical distancing.
