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Ross Anderson, a researcher at the Security Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, has written about contact tracing in the real world enumerating in detail some of the many shortcomings with and false assumptions about contact tracing as means of fighting a pandemic.
There are also real systems being built by governments. Singapore has already deployed and open-sourced one that uses contact tracing based on bluetooth beacons. Most of the academic and tech industry proposals follow this strategy, as the “obvious” way to tell who’s been within a few metres of you and for how long. The UK’s National Health Service is working on one too, and I’m one of a group of people being consulted on the privacy and security.
But contact tracing in the real world is not quite as many of the academic and industry proposals assume.
First, it isn’t anonymous. Covid-19 is a notifiable disease so a doctor who diagnoses you must inform the public health authorities, and if they have the bandwidth they call you and ask who you’ve been in contact with. They then call your contacts in turn. It’s not about consent or anonymity, so much as being persuasive and having a good bedside manner.
He is not alone in pointing out that claims of being able to anonymize personal data have largely been proven to be bunk. The rules we set in place now will be with us for a long time and have far-reaching effects. The need to be given an appropriate level of consideration.
Security researcher Bruce Schneier posted his concerns on the same contract tracing story.
Previously:
(2020-04-11) Apple and Google are Launching a Joint COVID-19 Tracing Tool for IOS and Android
(2020-04-08) Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker
(2014-10-16) How Nigeria Stopped Ebola
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 15 2020, @03:50AM (1 child)
A Polack? No point in arguing with him then. Us Poles argue just for the fun of it. He's just another big dumb bastard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2020, @02:40PM
Why don't you "practice what you preach" fakename & PROVE HOW "MANLY" YOU ARE? You don't because you're not manly @ all - especially considering that you fail a SIMPLE CHALLENGE I put to you (that's NOT so simple for someone like you that lives behind FAKE NAMES online, probably many, & YOU DO NOTHING as I said + which you now proved for me).
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THE PRICE OF YOUR "Phantasyland FAKE NAME online" is that - nothing of value to your name since you OBVIOUSLY aren't CAPABLE of useful outputs. I am & you even SAID so, again, thanks... lol!
BIG difference is that between someone like YOU vs. myself...
THANKS for proving MY points - which ARE now for sure, BASED ON FACT (about you & yes, me (albeit in MY FAVOR, not yours)).
APK
P.S.=> I knew you would - so much for MY being 'stupid polack' (as you & other WEEZILS said in other posts about me in your "not manly @ all" hide behind a FAKENAME proving your fake wasted life doing nothing of value on YOUR end but you also stated that I actually DO - again, thanks)... apk