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  • Culture shapes willingness to share personal data to reduce COVID spread

    Jan 27, 2021 10:45 am by Diana YatesResearch
    Junghwan Kim, a graduate student in geography and geographic information science at the U. of I., co-led a study of people’s attitudes toward sharing their geographic data with public health officials. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

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    • Junghwan Kim, a graduate student in geography and geographic information science at the U. of I., co-led a study of people’s attitudes toward sharing their geographic data with public health officials. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

    Culture, civic-mindedness and privacy concerns influence how willing people are to share personal location information to help stem the transmission of COVID-19 in their communities.