Digital Contact Tracing: Privacy by Design, Consent by Default
Q&A with TripleBlind, Steve Penrod, Greg Storm & Riddhiman Das In conversation with Communications at COVID Safe Paths – Deepti Pahwa, Innovation & Brand Strategy Consultant and Mahdi Fahda, Product Ops Specialist & OSS Community Manager
COVID-19 and the Perspective of Health Authorities: Optimizing for Human-Tech Partnerships
Q&A with Kyle Towle, Technology team at Safe Paths, former Senior Director of Cloud Technology at PayPal. In conversation with Deepti Pahwa, Communications team at Safe Paths and Innovation & Brand Strategy Consultant As the pandemic forces us to...
Project Aurora: A New Open Source Solution for the Google Apple Exposure Notification API
On May 4, 2020, Google and Apple released new details about the Google Apple Exposure Notification API (GAEN). GAEN provides a new way for public health authorities (PHAs) to implement a digital contact tracing solution that uses Bluetooth to detect...
Contact Tracing: Holistic Solution beyond Bluetooth
Contact tracing requires a strong understanding of location and context of encounters. Although Bluetooth technology does not provide location or context of the encounters, we would like to share our excitement and also some thoughts about the...
What do Public Health Authorities need for COVID-19? Thinking beyond Exposure Notification, Contact Tracing and Heatmaps
Q&A with Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab In conversation with Anil Ananthaswamy, MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow Researchers and technology companies have begun racing to automate the process of locating people infected with...
The Architecture of Trust in Contact Tracing
The key to containing the COVID-19 epidemic and its economic consequences If you had to choose between safety and privacy, what would you choose? If you had to choose between your source of income and your individual rights, which would win out?...
Transparency and Consent — By Default
Surveillance State, or a Better Option? Difficult times lead to clear perspectives. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has stopped “life as normal” across much of the world. As governments and healthcare systems put into place strict measures...