@inproceedings{4ffa63df243f44efa6e2d076a2c97cc4,
title = "Data Privacy, Regulations and Legal Issues on COVID-19 Tracking Apps: A Scoping Review",
abstract = "It cannot be deniable that smartphone apps have grown exponentially and are playing a crucial role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in many countries. This paper aims to investigate data privacy, regulations and legal issues on COVID-19 tracking apps. A literature search will be followed the PRISMA guidelines extension for a scoping review. The search will be conducted on PubMed and Google Scholar. A total of 38 articles from 7,626 articles were reviewed. Mostly articles report on data privacy. Not many articles report on regulations and legal issues. However, there are many challenges on COVID-19 applications such as security risks, privacy issues, political, ethical, and legal risks, and standardization issues.",
keywords = "Covid19 Apps, data privacy, Global Health, legal issues COVID-19, Medical Informatics, Mobile Application",
author = "Utoomporn Wongsin and Arnat Wannasri and Usman Iqbal and Chen, {Tuo Yu}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 The authors and IOS Press.",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.3233/SHTI210940",
language = "English",
series = "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics",
publisher = "IOS Press BV",
pages = "388--391",
editor = "John Mantas and Arie Hasman and Househ, {Mowafa S.} and Parisis Gallos and Emmanouil Zoulias and Joseph Liasko",
booktitle = "Informatics and Technology in Clinical Care and Public Health",
address = "Netherlands",
}