The need for privacy with public digital contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
² Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada.
³ Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁵ Borden Ladner Gervais, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁶ The Decision Lab, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁷ McGill University Health Centre Research Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada.

Yoshua Bengio et al. Lancet Digit Health. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;2(7):e342-e344.

doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(20)30133-3. Epub 2020 Jun 2.

¹ Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
² Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada.
³ Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁵ Borden Ladner Gervais, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁶ The Decision Lab, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁷ McGill University Health Centre Research Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada.

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