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European Experts Ready Smartphone Technology to Help Stop Coronavirus

2 pointsby henridfabout 5 years ago

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tastroderabout 5 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pepp-pt.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pepp-pt.org&#x2F;</a> and even their manifesto document do not go into the necessary specifics as to how this is planned to be privacy preserving, the manifesto talks about &quot;local trust centers&quot;, the article talks about logging BTLE connections. This all seems like stuff we&#x27;ve been discussing in the corresponding HN threads for weeks with no real way to do it in a privacy preserving manner. Without details making these assumptions sounds pretty ridiculous honestly. A bunch of talk about partnering and certifications. If you want to build something to preserve privacy in these scenarios, do it in the open.<p>The other cooperation mentioned there is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gesund-zusammen.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gesund-zusammen.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a> - love that their security contact down below is listed as &quot;responsibledisclosure@domain&quot; and they have a bunch of lawyers on the team. How about we rename that to coordinateddisclosure@ folks? And similar to the first initiative, they had time to put up a press package but no technical details on what they actually want to achieve.<p>And all that for techniques that have not been proven to be effective yet? Great.<p>Edit: According to one of their contributors it will be open sourced on GitHub once a stable version is reached. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;gannimo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1245630618462867457" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;gannimo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1245630618462867457</a> Still not great but at least we&#x27;ll get a look inside.