ius coronae – Automated Decision-Making Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Corona App

ius coronae – Automated Decision-Making Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A European Perspective, Braun Elli

Prof. Nadja Braun Binder and MLaw Catherine Egli contributed a country analysis of Switzerland to the special issue of the report Automating Society 2020: Automated Decision-Making Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A European Perspective.

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred the deployment of a plethora of automated decision-making (ADM) systems all over Europe. High hopes have been placed in applications and devices aimed at containing the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) through automation, thus providing a much needed alternative to lockdown measures that limit personal freedoms and strain the economies. (Introduction by Fabio Chiusi)

As many European countries did, Switzerland addressed the COVID-19 situation with a digital contact tracing app.

Automated Decision-Making Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A European Perspective is a special issue of the report Automating Society 2020 by AlgorithmWatch and Bertelsmann Stiftung.

Prof. Nadja Braun Binder and MLaw Catherine Egli contributed a country analysis of Switzerland to the special issue.