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Digital contact tracing apps help slow COVID-19. Here's how to increase trust.

A staff member holds a QR code for the "LeaveHomeSafe" COVID-19 contact-tracing app to consumers at a restaurant, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Hong Kong, China February 18, 2021. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu - RC2TUL9H0U2N

China is working with tech companies to enforce DCTs, which are operational in the country from restaurants to shopping malls. Image: REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

Danbee Back
Researcher, KAIST-Korea Policy Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Cornelius Kalenzi
Postdoctoral Researcher, KAIST-Korea Policy Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Moonjung Yim
Postdoctoral Researcher, KAIST-Korea Policy Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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DCTs: various uses, actors and data types Image: Authors' compilation
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The regulatory status of contact tracing worldwide
The regulatory status of contact tracing worldwide Image: Author's compilation
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