How do people view governmental pandemic surveillance? And how can their views inform courts considering the constitutionality of digital monitoring programs aimed at containing the spread of a highly contagious diseases? We measure the perceived intrusiveness of pandemic surveillance through two nationally representative surveys of Americans. Our results show that even at the height of a pandemic people find surveillance for public health to be more intrusive than surveillance for traditional law enforcement purposes. To account for these strong privacy concerns, we propose safeguards that we believe would make cell phone location tracking and other similar digital monitoring regimes constitutionally reasonable.

人们如何看待政府的流行病监测？考虑到旨在遏制高度传染性疾病传播的数字监测计划的合宪性，他们的观点如何告知法院？我们通过两项具有全国代表性的美国人调查来衡量流行病监测的感知干扰性。我们的结果表明，即使在大流行的高峰期，人们也会发现对公共卫生的监控比出于传统执法目的的监控更具侵入性。为了解决这些强烈的隐私问题，我们提出了一些保障措施，我们认为这些保障措施将使手机位置跟踪和其他类似的数字监控制度在宪法上是合理的。