COVID-19 Case Tracking System in Quarantine Policy: Focus on the Privacy Shift Concept and Application in South Korea

Kwansik Moon; Nackhwan Kim; Jemin Justin Lee; Hyunsik Yoon; Kyungho Lee

doi:10.3390/ijerph191811270

COVID-19 Case Tracking System in Quarantine Policy: Focus on the Privacy Shift Concept and Application in South Korea

Kwansik Moon
, Nackhwan Kim
, Jemin Justin Lee
, Hyunsik Yoon
, Kyungho Lee^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This study analyzed how Korea’s quarantine policy manages personal information to prevent and control COVID-19. Korea effectively halted the spread of COVID-19 through epidemiological investigations and cell-broadcast systems. In this process, the route of infection is presented without identifying the patient, and the necessary participants are selected only through authentication. We found a correlation between the number of emergency text messages sent by the Ministry of Interior and Safety in 2020 and the number of confirmed cases (R² = 0.465, p < 0.001). Based on Korea’s case, we propose a new concept for solving the personal information problems that might arise during a pandemic response.

Original language	English
Article number	11270
Journal	International journal of environmental research and public health
Volume	19
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811270
Publication status	Published - 2022 Sept

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Keywords

COVID-19
South Korea
cell broadcast system
epidemiological investigation system
pandemic
privacy shift
quarantine policy

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Pollution
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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