Digital surveillance for infectious diseases faces ethical concerns, including inadequate information, unclear governance, and potential privacy issues.

Ethics, Integrity, and Retributions of Digital Detection Surveillance Systems for Infectious Diseases: Systematic Literature Review

Digital surveillance technologies can enhance disease prevention, detection, tracking, reporting, and analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic, but ethical, legal, safety, and sustainability concerns must be addressed.

Digital technology and disease surveillance in the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review protocol

Social media and internet-based data collection offers untapped opportunities for public health surveillance, but requires improved integration, validation, and ethical considerations for optimal results.

Social Media- and Internet-Based Disease Surveillance for Public Health.

Digital epidemiology in public health surveillance during epidemics raises ethical concerns, but using new data sources like cellphones, wearables, and social media can be ethically justifiable and obligatory.

Ethics and governance for digital disease surveillance

Participatory surveillance systems using digital platforms and mobile apps face ethical challenges, including electronic consent, privacy protection, justice promotion, and interdisciplinary capacity building.

Participatory Disease Surveillance Systems: Ethical Framework

Digital public health tools can help combat COVID-19, but ethical boundaries and practical guidance are needed for effective implementation and decision-making.

Digital tools against COVID-19: taxonomy, ethical challenges, and navigation aid

Passive data use for digital public health surveillance in the postpandemic era presents ethical challenges in informed consent, privacy, equity, and ownership.

Passive Data Use for Ethical Digital Public Health Surveillance in a Postpandemic World

Digital surveillance systems for infectious diseases may have ethical concerns, such as inadequate information, unclear governance, and potential privacy issues.

Ethics, Integrity, and Retributions of Digital Detection Surveillance Systems for Infectious Diseases: Systematic Literature Review (Preprint)

Big data and new technology can improve communicable disease surveillance, but public trust in its use requires informed discussion, transparency, and ethical frameworks.

Communicable Disease Surveillance Ethics in the Age of Big Data and New Technology

Digital public health tools can help combat COVID-19, but ethical boundaries and legal risks remain unclear, and a ten-step guide for policymakers can help navigate these uncertainties.

Digital tools against COVID-19: Framing the ethical challenges and how to address them

Digital technologies can enhance public health responses to COVID-19, but must be integrated with conventional approaches for optimal effectiveness.

Digital technologies in the public-health response to COVID-19

Video surveillance in psychiatry may not effectively increase security in shared spaces, but may provide clinical benefits in private spaces and increase patients' autonomy and privacy.

Ethical and Practical Issues in Video Surveillance of Psychiatric Units.

Integrating ethical considerations into public health surveillance systems can help professionals anticipate, address, and potentially avoid ethical conflicts in surveillance systems.

Public Health Surveillance: Ethical Considerations

Physiolytics use in Swiss public administrations declines after the first weeks due to design, surveillance concerns, and perceived competition, highlighting the need for interventions like feedback and gamification to support engagement.

Safe return to the workplace: Perceived opportunities and threats in the use of health surveillance technologies in public administrations

Electronic surveillance technologies may provide security for vulnerable individuals like the elderly with dementia and those with learning disabilities, but their ethical implications for human rights and civil liberties must be considered.

Big brother is watching you--the ethical implications of electronic surveillance measures in the elderly with dementia and in adults with learning difficulties

Public health surveillance without explicit patient consent is ethically justifiable when it improves population health, reduces inequities, and addresses vulnerable populations, while maintaining minimal interference and secure data storage.

Ethical justification for conducting public health surveillance without patient consent.

Biometrics in HIV surveillance among criminalized populations raises privacy, legal, and trust concerns, and may not be appropriate in many jurisdictions due to legal, political, and social environments.

Biometrics and public health surveillance in criminalised and key populations: policy, ethics, and human rights considerations.

Video surveillance in mental health facilities can reduce violent and aggressive behavior, but may diminish privacy and raise ethical concerns.

Video Surveillance in Mental Health Facilities: Is it Ethical?

Public health surveillance promotes population health while respecting individual privacy rights, balancing public health needs with individual rights.

Health Surveillance, Ethics of

Digital mental health tools pose ethical considerations, requiring collaboration among stakeholders to create ethical frameworks for their development and implementation.

Towards the Design of Ethical Standards Related to Digital Mental Health and all Its Applications

What are the ethical considerations in the use of digital surveillance technologies in public health and safety?

These studies suggest that the ethical considerations in the use of digital surveillance technologies in public health and safety include privacy protection, informed consent, governance clarity, equity, and public trust.