Raposo, Vera Lúcia2024-03-192024-03-1920231364-2987PURE: 50723133PURE UUID: 39794c8d-6d87-4039-880e-eb07e055f53fScopus: 85140072167ORCID: /0000-0001-7895-2181/work/127012561http://hdl.handle.net/10362/165154Licensing © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.The COVID-19 pandemic has boosted the development and use of technology by increasing the use of previously existing technological resources, such as maps identifying population movements; assigning new uses to previously existing technological mechanisms, such as the use of facial recognition for monitoring infected people; and encouraging the development of new technologies, such as apps that ascribe risk codes to citizens. Without these digital measures, the pandemic would probably continue to expand, or, alternatively, entire populations would have to be quarantined for months (or even years), with significant consequences arising from either scenario. Technologies provide tools to avoid those scenarios. However, digital measures come at a price to our rights, namely our rights to privacy and liberty. Precautions and limitations ought to be imposed on the use of these technologies, forming a code of digital governance for COVID-19.1981625engCOVID-19digital governanceprivacyrights and libertiessurveillancetechnologySociology and Political ScienceLawSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutionsjournal article10.1080/13642987.2022.2132234https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85140072167