Privacy-protecting contact tracer for COVID-19? [was Re: A Moment of Silence #Foremembrance Today at 19:06 CET, 2:06 pm EDT, 11:06 am PDT, and Saturday at 2:06am in Hong Kong & Taipei]

On 3/27/20 11:18 PM, Moses Ma wrote:
> How do y’all feel about Singapore’s TraceTogether?
> See: 
> https://www.businessinsider.com/singapore-coronavirus-app-tracking-testing-no-shutdown-how-it-works-2020-3
> Also: 
> https://www.tech.gov.sg/media/technews/tracetogether-behind-the-scenes-look-at-its-development-process
> 
> How would you design a fully decentralized contact tracer?

Or, more broadly: how would you design a privacy-protecting contact 
tracer?  This is urgently needed.

Potential variations: 1. The app notifies you if it determines that you 
may have been exposed to COVID-19, without saying how it made that 
determination.  2. The app notifies healthcare officials that you may 
have been exposed, without telling them how it made that determination.

Ideas?

David Booth

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>> On Mar 27, 2020 at 9:44 AM, <Ian Smith <mailto:ian@vidicode.pro>> wrote:
>>
>> proposing anti covid-19 protests to avoid saving lives is part of the 
>> ethos here? I wasn't aware that preventing the countermeasure to 
>> pandemic response was what this group was about
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 6:10 AM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com 
>> <mailto:msporny@digitalbazaar.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 3/27/20 8:41 AM, Daniel Hardman wrote:
>>     > I will try to join you. Thank you for suggesting it.
>>
>>     I can't join, but thank you for the message and I'll observe the
>>     moment
>>     of silence, Christopher.
>>
>>     Visiting the memorial in person with people from this group was moving
>>     and a reminder that we need to keep these painful lessons from the
>>     past
>>     in mind as we build out these systems.
>>
>>     > @Ian: I share your frustration with the surveillance economy,
>>     but feel
>>     > that your comment steps away from the ethos of our group.
>>
>>     I'd like to underscore Daniel's comment. Many of us are in this group
>>     because we share in the frustration with the current surveillance
>>     economy. That said, the frustration is no excuse to tear down what
>>     others in the community are building. Your criticism was not
>>     constructive, please refrain from doing that again.
>>
>>     We need to focus on helping each other build the world that we want to
>>     see realized.
>>
>>     -- manu
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
>>     Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
>>     blog: Veres One Decentralized Identifier Blockchain Launches
>>     https://tinyurl.com/veres-one-launches
>>

Received on Saturday, 28 March 2020 03:36:21 UTC