TY - JOUR AU - de Jong, Bouke AU - Gaye, Badou AU - Luyten, Jeroen AU - van Buitenen, Bart AU - André, Emmanuel AU - Meehan, Conor AU - O’Siochain, Cian AU - Tomsu, Kristyna AU - Urbain, Jérôme AU - Grietens, Koen Peeters AU - Njue, Maureen AU - Pinxten, Wim AU - Gehre, Florian AU - Nyan, Ousman AU - Buvé, Anne AU - Roca, Anna AU - Ravinetto, Raffaella AU - Antonio, Martin T1 - Ethical Considerations for Movement Mapping to Identify Disease Transmission Hotspots T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2019 VL - 25 IS - 7 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Traditional public health methods for detecting infectious disease transmission, such as contact tracing and molecular epidemiology, are time-consuming and costly. Information and communication technologies, such as global positioning systems, smartphones, and mobile phones, offer opportunities for novel approaches to identifying transmission hotspots. However, mapping the movements of potentially infected persons comes with ethical challenges. During an interdisciplinary meeting of researchers, ethicists, data security specialists, information and communication technology experts, epidemiologists, microbiologists, and others, we arrived at suggestions to mitigate the ethical concerns of movement mapping. These suggestions include a template Data Protection Impact Assessment that follows European Union General Data Protection Regulations. KW - ethics KW - transmission hotspots KW - movement mapping KW - infectious disases KW - GPS KW - smartphones KW - mobile phones KW - infectious diseases DO - 10.3201/eid2507.181421 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/7/18-1421_article ER - End of Reference