People Count
Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health
$49.50
- Hardcover
120 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2021
Summary
An introduction to the technology of contact tracing and its usefulness for public health, considering questions of efficacy, equity, and privacy.
How do you stop a pandemic before a vaccine arrives? Contact tracing is key, the first step in a process that has proven effective: trace, test, and isolate. Smartphones can collect some of the information required by contact tracers–not just where you’ve been but also who’s been near you. Can we repurpose the tracking technology that we ca…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262045711 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262045710 |
| Author: | Susan Landau |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 356g |
| Dimensions: | 137mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“In a pandemic, good science is what we need. Now, a year and a half later, in People Count: Contact Tracing Apps and Public Health, Tufts University professor Susan Landau has set out to make a sober assessment.”
—ZDNET
“Contact-tracing apps can be a useful tool for public health, but they have considerable false positive and false negative rates.”
—Big Think
Susan Landau
Susan Landau is Bridge Professor of Cyber Security and Policy at The Fletcher School and at the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, at Tufts University. She is the coauthor of Privacy on the Line and the author of Surveillance or Security? and Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age.
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