PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Michele Loi
TI  - How to fairly incentivise digital contact tracing
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2020-106388
DP  - 2020 Jul 09
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - medethics-2020-106388
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2020/07/08/medethics-2020-106388.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2020/07/08/medethics-2020-106388.full
AB  - Digital apps using Bluetooth to log proximity events (henceforth, digital contact tracing) are increasingly supported by technologists and governments. By and large, the public debate on this matter focuses on privacy, with experts from both law and technology offering very concrete proposals and participating to a lively debate. Far less attention is paid to effective incentives and their fairness. This paper aims to fill this gap by offering a practical, workable solution for a promising incentive, justified by the ethical principles of non-maleficence, beneficence, autonomy and justice. This incentive is a free phone optimised for running such app.