Abstract
Abstract
Digital data help data scientists and epidemiologists track and predict outbreaks of disease. Mobile phone GPS data, social media data, or other forms of information updates such as the progress of epidemics are used by epidemiologists to recognize disease spread among specific groups of people. Targeting groups as potential carriers of a disease, rather than addressing individuals as patients, risks causing harm to groups. While there are rules and obligations at the level of the individual, we have to reach a stage in the development of data analytics where groups are protected as entities. This chapter offers a deeper examination of harms to the groups.
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
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