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]

For example, this
https://www.gideononline.com/about/gideon/

may be the case of creating an open access one?

PDM

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 9:00 AM Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Moses
> I am not an epidemiologist and I dont know one off the bat but
> I am an expert systems designer and my expertise is about extracting
> expertise
> from human experts, I may have access to the required expertise through
> knowledge bases
> You may need expertise of the epidiemiologist rather than the human itself
> then let me know maybe I can help - what are the questions you need
> answered?
>
> P
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:07 AM Moses Ma <moses.ma@futurelabconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for this input.
>>
>> FYI, I know this already, it's not a spoiler. Again, I'm trying to
>> partner up with a notable epidemiologist on this, who could provide solid
>> bankable guidance. If any of you know one, please introduce me. We'll
>> probably have better luck finding on via the IEEE blockchains in healthcare
>> working group?
>>
>> Anyway, my thinking is to do two releases... the first with only simple
>> contact tracing and no DIDs asap, and the second with VCs, location
>> analysis and support for antibody testing...  down the road when the
>> science is ready. But the key is to *plan* for forthcoming functionality
>> in the underlying foundational design and data structures up front. This
>> would make us proactive rather than reactive, like the US federal
>> government has been.
>>
>> FYI, Fauci recently "guessed" that immunity would be likely, maybe for
>> 1-2 years, but then he qualified the statement by adding that this was a
>> personal "hope", and we won't know for sure until the science is done. A
>> lot depends on how fast the virus mutates, which by the way, seems to be
>> mutating into something less deadly but more contagious.
>>
>> Anyway, my point is that we don't need to "wait" to plan intelligently
>> and base the design on science... this are the core errors in Trump's
>> logic, he tends to wait and he does not believe in science. And why I think
>> the Trump will screw up contact tracing apps just like they have with
>> everything else.
>>
>> MM
>>
>> PS, *another idea: *it might be interesting to give VCs to CDC
>> intelligence officers to give them access into contact sharing databases.
>> These would be revocable after the pandemic is over, and could
>> theoretically be attenuated when delegated to support staff.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/30/20 9:21 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
>>
>> spoiler alert, coronavirus antibodies for MERS last 8 to 10 years, SARS 1
>> to 2 years, swine flu months, "standard flu " months. covid-19 has been
>> potentially false reported as having a 2 week immunity in some people. IGF
>> and IGM antibodies are also different time scales. The ability to increase
>> production of antibodies after they fall but are still known how to make
>> may or may not less to contagion periods. We need to wait for science.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020, 12:01 PM Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Ideas?
>>>>
>>>> David Booth
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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