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      <journal-title>JMIRx Med</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2563-6316</issn>
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        <article-title>Peer Review of “COVID-19 and Cybersecurity: Finally, an Opportunity to Disrupt?”</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="editor">
          <name>
            <surname>Meinert</surname>
            <given-names>Edward</given-names>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Chadwick</surname>
            <given-names>David W</given-names>
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        <label>1</label>
        <institution>University of Kent</institution>
        <addr-line>Kent</addr-line>
        <country>United Kingdom</country>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <season>Apr-Jun</season>
        <year>2021</year>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>6</day>
        <month>5</month>
        <year>2021</year>
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      <volume>2</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
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        <date date-type="received">
          <day>6</day>
          <month>4</month>
          <year>2021</year>
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        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>6</day>
          <month>4</month>
          <year>2021</year>
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      <copyright-statement>©David W Chadwick. Originally published in JMIRx Med (https://med.jmirx.org), 06.05.2021.</copyright-statement>
      <copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
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        <p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIRx Med, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://med.jmirx.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.</p>
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        <kwd>COVID-19</kwd>
        <kwd>cybersecurity</kwd>
        <kwd>challenges and disruption</kwd>
        <kwd>data protection</kwd>
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      <italic>This is a peer-review report submitted for the paper "COVID-19 and Cybersecurity: Finally, an Opportunity to Disrupt?"</italic>
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      <title>Round 1 Review:</title>
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        <title>General Comments</title>
        <p>This paper [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>] provides an overview of cybersecurity and privacy risks arising from COVID-19. Overall, the paper is quite generic, and I did not think that it identified any new issues or presented any new results.</p>
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        <title>Specific Comments</title>
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          <title>Major Comments</title>
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              <p>When discussing data sharing privacy versus public health for the contact tracing apps, why didn't the author compare what dictatorial regimes such as China are doing at one extreme (eg, recording every railway carriage that someone travels in) with the more privacy-protecting method championed by Google and Apple?</p>
            </list-item>
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              <p>When discussing fraud and theft, why didn’t the author mention the fact that Google still accepts “paid” advertisements from fraudulent financial services and publishes these at the top of search results, even though Google has known about this problem for years?</p>
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          <title>Minor Comments</title>
          <p>There are a few grammatical errors, as follows:</p>
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            <list-item>
              <p>“time is of essence” should be “time is of the essence”</p>
            </list-item>
            <list-item>
              <p>“elder people” should be “elderly people” (twice)</p>
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              <surname>Ferreira</surname>
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              <surname>Cruz-Correia</surname>
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          <year>2021</year>
          <month>5</month>
          <day>5</day>
          <volume>2</volume>
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