Contact Tracing Privacy
The cluster discusses privacy-preserving contact tracing apps for COVID-19, highlighting implementations like Apple/Google's Bluetooth API using temporary IDs and local processing, while debating their effectiveness against privacy-invasive alternatives.
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Why isn't this data used then for contact tracing?
Not a dupe. This article explains in detail how the contact tracing API can work while preserving privacy.Random identifiers not linked to you or your device, identifiers change every 10 minutes so third parties can't track you over time, processing locally on the device instead of by Apple or Google or the government, etc.
Impossible and fruitless? Contact tracing has been quite effective in Taiwan unless I’ve been completely fooled by propaganda. And contact tracing apps don’t require you to accept general location tracking. They anonymously exchange temporary tokens and, when you report yourself as a positive case, the tokens you’ve used in the past two weeks get uploaded to a central authority so that anyone who has received them can see that they represent contact with an infected person.
This doesn't appear to be a way for the government or tech companies to track people. Looking through the API docs I think it's designed just to alert people who may have been exposed.It lets someone identify as Covid-19 positive and then if people have come into contact with them, you can be alerted. Most of the processing happens on device and it doesn't use location data.It looks like it would be very hard to abuse by governments or businesses, but I'm not an
You can do contact tracing without location surveillance: https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/asia-pacific/singapore-g...
Contact tracing does not need to be a privacy invasion - the Apple/Google implementation seems very well thought out.https://ncase.me/contact-tracing
As the Apple/Google system shows, it's possible to do contact tracing without sacrificing privacy. The blame is entirely with the UK government, not anybody who takes the reasonable step of refusing to support unnecessarily harmful technology.
Check the European standards for covid-19 tracing apps: those don't collect any personal data.
This works similar to Covid contact tracing except limited to known contacts. Seems harmless, though it shouldn’t be on by default.
Google and Apple are now doing a version of this: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/10/apple-and-google-are-launc...