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- Title
THE EFFICACY, EQUITY AND EXTERNALITIES OF AUSTRALIA'S COVIDSAFE APP AS A POLICY INTERVENTION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: WAS IT SUNSCREEN OR TANNING LOTION?
- Authors
SELBY, JOHN
- Abstract
Digital contact tracing apps, such as the COVIDSafe App in Australia, have been rapidly implemented by many governments as a public policy solution to increase the efficiency of health screening testing during the COVID-19 viral pandemic. This article analyses how the COVIDSafe App's unresolved efficacy and equity issues and the cybersecurity and privacy externalities it imposes onto Australians have prevented the App from making a significant positive contribution towards reducing the impact of the pandemic in Australia. It attributes some of the failure of Bluetooth-based digital contract tracing apps to their mis-characterisation as a Lessigean 'code as law' policy response, arguing instead that such apps are more complex and fragile cyber-physical systems requiring more analysis prior to implementation.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; COVID-19 pandemic; MEDICAL screening; EXTERNALITIES; SUNSCREENS (Cosmetics)
- Publication
University of New South Wales Law Journal, 2021, Vol 44, Issue 4, p1584
- ISSN
0313-0096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.53637/jbeo1430