COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing

Latest papers

• Protect Your Score: Contact Tracing With Differential Privacy Guarantees

  Rob Romijnders, Christos Louizos, Yuki M. Asano, Max Welling · 14 September 2026

  The pandemic in 2020 and 2021 had enormous economic and societal consequences, and studies show that contact tracing algorithms can be key in the early containment of the virus. While large strides have been made towards more effective contact tracing algorithms, we argue that privacy concerns curre…

• Comparative Algorithmic Governance of Public Health Instruments across India, EU, US and LMICs

  Sahibpreet Singh · 27 January 2026

  The study investigates the juridico-technological architecture of international public health instruments, focusing on their implementation across India, the European Union, the United States and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. It addresses a research la…

• Research Opportunities and Challenges of the EU's Digital Services Act

  Francesco Pierri, Theo Araujo, Sanne Kruikemeier, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele, Laura Vandenbosch, Joana Gon\c{c}alves-Sa, Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz · 17 December 2025

  The Digital Services Act (DSA) introduced by the European Union in 2022 offers a landmark framework for platform transparency, with Article 40 enabling vetted researchers to access data from major online platforms. Yet significant legal, technical, and organizational barriers still hinder effective …

• Deadline-Chasing in Digital Health: Modeling EMR Adoption Dynamics and Regulatory Impact in Indonesian Primary Care

  Suryo Satrio, Bukhori Muhammad Aqid · 8 December 2025

  Indonesia digital healthcare transformation is accelerating under Minister of Health Regulation Number 24 of 2022, which mandates the adoption of Electronic Medical Records EMR and integration with the SATUSEHAT platform. However, empirical evidence regarding the factors, trajectory and speed of ado…