[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4Cast #670: Balancing Privacy and Public Health

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OPLIN 4Cast #670: Balancing Privacy and Public Health
May 27th, 2020

[image: DNA strand with a lock] Last month, we covered plans by Apple and
Google to build contact-tracing capabilities into phones
<https://4cast.oplin.org/?p=8047>. These new exposure-notification tools
<https://fortune.com/2020/05/20/apple-google-covid-19-tracing-tool/> were
released last Wednesday, allowing for regional health authorities to
develop and release apps that will assist them in combating the spread of
the COVID-19. The debate rages on to seek a balance between effectively
slowing the pandemic and protecting citizen privacy.

   -
   - The technologies the world is using to track coronavirus — and people
   <https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/18/the-technologies-the-world-is-using-to-track-coronavirus-and-people/>
   [*VentureBeat*] "Governments are quickly deploying their own cocktails
   of tracking methods, including device-based contact tracing, wearables,
   thermal scanning, drones, and facial recognition technology."
   - The Case For Contact Tracing Apps Built On Apple And Google's Exposure
   Notification System
   <https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200520/10571644539/case-contact-tracing-apps-built-apple-googles-exposure-notification-system.shtml>
   [*TechDirt*] "Traditional physical contact tracing involves public
   health officials interviewing infected patients and their recent contacts,
   collecting that information in centralized government databases, and
   connecting real identities to contacts. The Google-Apple exposure
   notification system clearly outperforms traditional approaches on privacy
   grounds."
   - How South Korea turned an urban planning system into a virus tracking
   database
   <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-southkorea-tracing/how-south-korea-turned-an-urban-planning-system-into-a-virus-tracking-database-idUSKBN22Y03I>
   [*Reuters*] "The Epidemic Investigation Support System (EISS) merges
   advanced methods of collecting information and tracking the virus into a
   new data sharing system that patches together cellphone location data and
   credit card records."
   - One of the first contact-tracing apps violates its own privacy policy
   <https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/21/care19-dakota-privacy-coronavirus/>
   [*Washington Post*] "Care19 sends data to Foursquare including a
   citizen’s location, his advertising identifier (a unique code representing
   a specific phone) and the unique 'citizen code' generated by the app."

*From the Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - Albergotti, Reed. “Apple and Google Launch ‘Exposure Notification’
   Tool to Aid Contact Tracing
   <https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bwh&AN=wapo.9662e4f2-9ad0-11ea-a282-386f56d579e6&site=ehost-live>
   .” *Washington Post, The*, 2020 Winter 5AD.
   - Gurman, Mark, and Gerrit De Vynck. “Apple, Google’s Covid-19 Tool
   Gives Health Authorities More Data
   <https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=143344144&site=ehost-live>
   .” *Bloomberg.Com*, May 2020, p. N.PAG.
   - O’Halloran, Joe. “UK Contact-Tracing App Developers Hit Back at
   Effectiveness and Privacy Doubts: Pre-Eminent Scientists Continue to Defend
   the NHS’s Coronavirus Contact-Tracing App against Criticism over Its
   Effectiveness and Use of Centralised Data Gathering
   <https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cph&AN=143187682&site=ehost-live>
   .” *Computer Weekly*, May 2020, pp. 4–7.

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