Question

This analytical thinking assignment asks you for applying principles of ethics and privacy. As you know, we are in a pandemic with a very contagious flu. The infection currently spreads to the whole nation and severely threats thousands of lives. To prevent the contagion, some Asian and European countries have deployed a system of surveillance cameras to monitor their citizens' temperature everywhere so that they can identify and quickly isolate the sicknesses. Do you think we should do the same or differently? why? Defend your answer.

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[Q] Applying principles of ethics and privacy - Do you think we should do the same or differently? Why?

We should do the same as it additionally implies that we need to share a portion of that data, including data about somebody's health. For the most part, individuals consider health privacy as far as the relationship they have with their clinicians and primary care physicians who need to keep by far most of the data private - both ethically and legally. In any case, the public health framework is set up with various legitimate consents and assurances than a physician's office, and ordinarily, it considers ethics and patient privacy differently. Moreover, in terms of applying principles of ethics and privacy, we should stand for –

[1.] Transparency — the ethical principle of transparency necessitates that public health authorities publicly clarify the reason for decisions in language that is linguistically and socially proper. At the point when decisions must be made notwithstanding unsure data, the vulnerabilities ought to be undeniably recognized and passed on to people in general In addition, lawfully there are cut-outs in health privacy laws like HIPAA that permit public health authorities to get data about an individual's health without their permission. Individual risks and the privacy that can emerge out of the revelation of individual health data like stigma are as yet basic worries for public health authorities. Here, our principle ought to be to gather and utilize a minimal measure of information conceivable in light of the fact that it diminishes harm as to gather the minimum information conceivable to accomplish a public health objective.

[2.] Secure social mobilization and public engagement – the inclusion of all parts of ethical and privacy planning decisions and their defenses ought to be publicized and open to public examination. This will help to:

• Uphold public trust, add to the authenticity of plans, and guarantee the responsibility of public health authorities both in the planning stage and during a plan’s execution of deploying a system of surveillance cameras to monitor the citizens' temperature.
• Increase public awareness about the COVID-19 related dangers and empower individuals to take steps at an individual, work environment, family, and network levels to plan for and react to a pandemic.
• Contribute to the improvement of powerful and sufficient plans and increment public certainty that policies are sensible, non-discriminatory, responsive, and in accordance with local values and conditions.
• Secure the understanding of people in general and common society on the utilization of remedial measures and their distribution.
• Mitigate fears and encourage public compliance of the strange virus and the chance of social interruption that can result, especially in conditions where the general population is required to make sacrifices and potentially cause monetary misfortune or infringements of their own self-governance.

[3.] Balancing rights, values, and interests - In Asian and European nations, where there is broad surveillance, here digital tracking data is pervasively used today, that can make information assortment simpler by identifying and quickly isolating the sicknesses to prevent widespread of the virus. Furthermore, at this point public can easily access information details of individuals with confirmed cases of COVID-19. Likewise, we should balance the rights, values, and interests of individuals’ in light of the fact that personal information about an individual and their health is critical to a public health authority, it doesn't imply that data is significant for the overall population. It is the reason, in spite of addressing from journalists, public health authorities should just give out a constrained measure of data on the individuals who are recognized through surveillance cameras with COVID-19 positive.