# A Lesson for the Future: Will You Let Me Violate Your Privacy to Save Your Life?
## 1 Introduction
This focused on if the participant believed in their importance in preventing the spread of a virus, their concerns when using the application, and if they would be open to sharing their personal information for contact tracing purposes. Next, we asked if they believed CTAs should be mandatory and whether or not they would trust governing agencies with their personal data. This was used to base the general public's opinion of CTAs. This section's results will be compared to the last section after we present the participants with our findings. After questioning the participants, we presented them with our findings (see Section 4) on South Korea's handling of the pandemic and that their mandatory implementation of CTAs (as well as other mandatory measures) resulted in a significantly less infection and death toll than Canada. This section included graphical representations of the direct comparisons between Canada's and South Korea's COVID-19 cases and death tolls. Finally, we again questioned the participants' opinions on CTAs to detect if there would be any deviations from their original stance. We asked if they would use a CTA in a future pandemic and if they would trust a government or a recognized third party with their personal information. We then asked again if the participant believed that, in a future pandemic, CTAs should be mandatory and if they would recommend their peers to download them. While previous studies [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] have examined the privacy and security aspects of contact tracing apps during the COVID-19 pandemic, our research aims to go beyond these investigations. In addition to evaluating the existing concerns, we place special emphasis on the impact of educating the public regarding these issues. Our research takesa comprehensive approach by exploring the positive impact of educating the public about the benefits of these apps in halting the spread of viruses and reducing mortality rates in other countries. By highlighting success stories and demonstrating how contact tracing apps have been effective in curbing the transmission of infectious diseases, we aim to foster a deeper understanding among individuals about the potential of these apps in mitigating future pandemics. We believe that, by emphasizing the positive outcomes achieved through contact tracing apps, we can inspire and motivate the public to adopt and utilize these tools in future pandemic scenarios, further strengthening global efforts to prevent the rapid spread of infectious diseases and to minimize the associated health risks. This unique aspect of our research sets our work apart from previous studies. The main contributions of this work are as follows. 1. First, we study and investigate the security and privacy techniques employed in Canada's Contact Tracing Applications and assess the validity of the public privacy concerns about CTAs. 2. We then compare Canada's and South Korea's COVID-19 restriction policies and protocols. We also provide a thorough demographic and environmental comparison that may influence and impact the number of COVID-19 cases, those hospitalized, and deaths across both countries. 3. We conduct a survey gathering participants' demographic information, opinions, and knowledge of CTAs before and after presenting our findings. We then conduct an in-depth analysis of the collected data from participants across Canada. 4. We use this data collection and our findings to provide three suggestions' recommendations on how governments and health authorities can respond effectively in a future pandemic and increase the adoption rate for CTAs to save more lives. The rest of this paper is organized as follows: Section 2 presents the related work, and, in Section 3, we investigate the Canadian contact tracing application, COVID Alert. Section 4 studies and explains Canada's performance during the COVID-19 pandemic and compares it with other countries, such as South Korea. Section 6 describes our methodology and presents our findings.