Reflections on Privacy Dilemma and Countermeasures in Epidemic Prevention and Control / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Nowadays, the wide application of artificial intelligence technology and big data technology in epidemic prevention and control has played an indispensable and key role, and will continue to be used in depth. At the same time, the digitization of personal information has exacerbated ethical problems, such as the expansion of personal privacy boundary, the complexity of privacy ownership, and the imbalance of various forms of value and rights. Therefore, it is of great significance to identify, prevent and solve these privacy problems according to the needs of epidemic prevention and control and ethical principles. Starting with the application scope of big data technology in epidemic prevention and control, this paper expounded prominent problems in the four stages of privacy dilemma in epidemic prevention and control and three typical conflicts of interest, analyzed three causes of privacy problems, clarified three principles for dealing with privacy problems, comprehensively considered and put forward countermeasures to solve privacy ethics problems in epidemic prevention and control, so as to provide reference for alleviating or solving the privacy problems in epidemic prevention and control.