A literature search assignment:Mobile phones, location, contact tracing andepidemics

Objective: To identify, characterize and classify sci-entific articles regarding privacy friendly methods of mobileinfection tracing (protocols, privacy concepts) as well as threatsto citizens from such smartphone health surveillance infrastruc-tures. Method: A literature review based on a keyword search andsnowballing process were a inclusion/exclusion and classificationcriteria is presented and derived articles are evaluated from saidcriteria. Results: Results show that fully developed, peer-reviewedprivacy friendly contact tracing solutions are scarce in this fieldbut a huge quantity of newly published none peer-reviewedpapers are being published as the need of stopping the spreadof COVID-19 in a privacy friendly way is a huge focus forgovernments and researchers all over the globe. Conclusion: Based on the results, it is concluded that privacyis a rather recent addition to contact tracing as most of thesolutions proposed in later articles did not specifically focus onprivacy.