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In the next few weeks, you're going to hear a lot about "test and trace" as a plan to get us from national quarantine to a semi-normal life. I wrote about what tracing technology looks like in other countries—and what it might look like in the U.S.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/contact-tracing-could-free-america-from-its-quarantine-nightmare/609577/ …
Americans are about to learn about a number of tracing possibilities—like "Waze for COVID" apps, or a national network of Bluetooth pings—that will strike some privacy advocates as something harvested from their darkest nightmares. I have three responses to that.
1. The worriers are right. We should be vigilant that programs designed to monitor a pandemic not become indefinite surveillance programs. And South Korea's (extremely successful) anti-COVID efforts have relied on a level of invasiveness that might shock most Americans.pic.twitter.com/OqqMXZw7Bh
2. There are ways to design these apps—e.g., by encrypting GPS data, or randomizing Bluetooth pings (see below)—that would protect privacy much more than the tracing programs we see in other countries.pic.twitter.com/U5GOBVwUSF
3. If privacy is a human right, it exists in balance with other human rights. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs. Hundreds of millions are living under semi-house arrest. We should try to protect ppl while evaluating our options relative to the present nightmare.
@DKThomp I'm part of a group working on this right now. A privacy-centric smartphone app that does NOT use GPS. Would love to talk more if you're interestedhttps://www.covid-watch.org/
collaborating w Stanford, and a number of similar-minded organizations around the world. Been cited in a number of other publications (Financial Times, VentureBeat, etc.): https://www.covid-watch.org/medialist
Great read.
A day late and a test short.
Great article. Wondering what the penetration on something like this would be post-Snowden/CA
I'm going to re-read this carefully, then sit down and think hard and see where the ideas proposed here, our current condition, and my set of values, will take me. But thanks for this stimulating piece.
PS: 1/2 I read people proposing solutions to our current frozen condition "until a reliable antiviral treatment or COVID-19 vaccine is widely available" (as you do).
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