Re: 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 Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 04:38, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Here's the next phase of response from the Czech republic

CR had one of the strongest and earliest responses to Covid19, but it has
been surprsingly popular, and so far, effective.  In particular, people
must wear masks in public, including smokers, or face a fine of up to
400-800 Eur.  Everyone I see complies.  Numbers are good, and possibly
coming down now, with low deaths.  Touch wood.

Below is the next step, the interesting thing is that *data is destroyed on
the central server after 6 hours*.

https://www.praguemorning.cz/czech-republic-smart-quarantine/

The Czech Republic will start testing the new “smart quarantine system” to
track the movements of infected citizens in South Moravia.

The monitoring system, which requires consent, will use data from mobile
phones and payment cards of people who have been tested positive to find
all the potential people that could be infected as a result.

How does it work?

The infected person will be asked to give informed consent. Hygienists will
then track his movement based on card payments and mobile operator data
from the previous five days.

Subsequently, health authorities will work to identify individuals who may
have been infected by the coronavirus patient. Authorities will then
immediately contact these people, who will be placed under quarantine,
while medical teams will deploy to test them for Covid-19. The system will
also involve the army, which will transport the necessary medical teams.

The data will remain in the system for a maximum of six hours, then
deleted. Data security is also assured by running a free system for the
Ministry of Health, Keboola, which manages and secures data for large
companies such as banks or insurance companies.


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> Ideas?
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> David Booth
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> > Moses
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> > *Moses Ma | FutureLab Consulting Inc*
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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
> >>
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