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From the Executive Summary: \'Digital contact tracing is the main technological issue currently facing countries that are dealing with the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic This paper explains the concept of digital contact tracing and highlights its importance as a helpful tool for human epidemiological investigations and for minimizing the spread of the novel coronavirus It goes on to survey the international scale of policy tools that have been selected for the purpose of digital contact tracing -- ranging from China, which imposed mandatory means on all citizens that incorporate artificial intelligence and generate a \'health code\';to Asian democracies such as South Korea and Taiwan, which have implemented intrusive digital tracking tools that are run by civil agencies, with no involvement of the secret services;to the democratic countries of Europe as well as Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, which employ digital contact tracing only with citizens\' consent Israel, it was found, has positioned itself between the Asian democracies and China \'
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