As we all long for freedom from lockdowns and home confinement, people would love to believe 'there is an app for that'.
Many countries are discussing, planning or even implementing so-called contact tracing apps. There are heated debates about privacy and security issues.
But what's missing in most debates is how effective the apps actually are — and there could be some r...
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Alice Stollmeyer is the executive director of Defend Democracy, in Brussels, Marietje Schaake is a Dutch former MEP and international policy fellow at Stanford and Financial Times columnist. Frank Dignum is professor of socially-aware artificial intelligence at Umeå university in Sweden.