African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms | African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms COVID-19 Position Paper
Publisher: African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedom
Change model: advocacy
Category: Identity and Privacy
Following the development of the Apple-Google contact tracing app
There will be too many stories about the Google/Apple proximity tracing app to list/highlight them all. I’ll update this page from time to time (new items on top) as new developments emerge. If there is anything specifically future focused, like the promise to limit the API’s duration, I will consider a different post.
UK virus-tracing app switches to Apple-Google model
Government now intends to launch an app in the autumn but it may still lack contact-tracing tech.
Exposure Notification API launches to support public health agencies
Apple and Google’s Exposure Notifications technology is available to public health agencies on both iOS and Android.
Apple and Google release first seed of COVID-19 exposure notification API for contact tracing app developers – TechCrunch
Apple and Google have released the first version of their exposure notification API, which they previously called the contact tracing API. This is a developer-focused release, and is a seed of the API in development, with the primary intent of collecting feedback from developers who will be using th…
EFF opposes California bill to authorize digitally verifiable COVID-19 test results
No to California Bill on Verified Credentials of COVID-19 Test Results
EFF opposes a California bill, A.B. 2004, that would authorize the issuers of COVID-19 test results to do so with digital verifiable credentials. This bill would take us a step towards national digital identification, create information security risks, exacerbate social inequities in access to smartphones and COVID-19 tests, endorse one solution to an evolving technological problem, and fail to limit who may view credentials of test results
Change model: letter of opposition co-signed with ACLU of California
Ada Lovelace Institute – Rapid evidence review explainer
COVID-19 Rapid Evidence Review: Exit through the App Store?
A rapid evidence review of the technical considerations and societal implications of using technology to transition from the COVID-19 crisis
Change model: advocacy and policy briefs
Focus: discouraging approaches to immunity certification that will erode privacy, stratify society, and invite discrimination
MIT Technology Review COVID Tracing Tracker
MIT Technology Review COVID Tracing Tracker
There’s a deluge of apps that detect your covid-19 exposure, often with little transparency. Our Covid Tracing Tracker project will document them.
The Project will track and compare various contact tracing apps using five categories:
- Is it voluntary?
- Are there limitations on how the data gets used?
- Will data be destroyed after a period of time?
- Is data collection minimized?
- Is the effort transparent?
MIT Technology Review, 7 May 2020
Change model: better and more comparative information to inform decision-making.
update:
A common EU toolbox for contact tracing
Coronavirus: An EU approach for efficient contact tracing
Coronavirus: An EU approach for efficient contact tracing apps to support gradual lifting of confinement measures
“Welcoming the toolbox, Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton said: “Contact tracing apps to limit the spread of coronavirus can be useful, especially as part of Member States’ exit strategies. However, strong privacy safeguards are a pre-requisite for the uptake of these apps, and therefore their usefulness. While we should be innovative and make the best use of technology in fighting the pandemic, we will not compromise on our values and privacy requirements.”“
European Union Press Release 16 April 2020
Change Model: Standards and common code
Limiting the Apple/Google Contact Tracer to the Crisis Period Only
Apple and Google pledge to shut down coronavirus tracker when pandemic ends
representatives from each company pledged for the first time to disable the service after the outbreak had been sufficiently contained. Such a decision would have to be made on a region-by-region basis, and it’s unclear how public health authorities would reach such a determination. However, the engineers stated definitively that the APIs were not intended to be maintained indefinitely.
“As part of the change, the daily key is now referred to as the “temporary tracing key,” and the long-term tracing key included in the original specification is no longer present.”
The Verge
Change Model: Code designed for obsolescence?
DP-3T deployments
DP-3T/documents
This repository contains a proposal for a secure and decentralized privacy-preserving proximity tracing system. Its goal is to simplify and accelerate the process of identifying people who have been in contact with an infected person, thus providing a technological foundation to help slow the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The system aims to minimise privacy and security risks for individuals and communities and guarantee the highest level of data protection.
Change Model: Privacy-respecting code for contract tracing, built by consortium and focused on decentralized approaches.
“We are a international consortium of technologists, legal experts, engineers and epidemiologists with a wide range of experience who are interested in ensuring that any proximity tracing technology does not result in governments obtaining surveillance capabilities which will endanger civil society.” –
DP-3T “Who We Are”
European Commission Strategy: Digital technologies – actions in response to coronavirus pandemic
Digital technologies – actions in response to coronavirus pandemic
The European Commission has been working to coordinate, complement and initiate measures to deal with every aspect of the coronavirus pandemic, and digital, media and telecoms play a vital role. Digital technologies have never been more important in our lives, and making sure Europe has the infrastructure, the connectivity and the regulations in place to respond to coronavirus and to keep people active and safe online is our mission.
Key Quote: “Shaping Europe’s Digital Future”
Follow links for details on Data, artificial intelligence and supercomputers, Telecommunications, networks and connectivity, Online platforms and disinformation, and skills, collaborative working and creativity
Change Model: Policy