Post-COVID Public Health Surveillance and Privacy Expectations in the United States: Scenario-Based Interview Study

Background Smartphone-based apps designed and deployed to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic may become infrastructure for postpandemic public health surveillance in the United States. Through the lenses of privacy concerns and user expectations of digital pandemic mitigation techniques, we identified possible long-term sociotechnical implications of such an infrastructure. Objective We explored how people in the United States perceive the possible...