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Is contact tracing technology categorically different from mass surveillance technology?
by alexbanks 7y ago
Is contact tracing technology categorically different from mass surveillance technology?
- mygo 7y agoIf the individuals can’t be personally identified, yes.
- dependenttypes 7y agoThey always can.
- nielsole 7y agoYou could work with rotating anonymous uuids. 1. You log which uuids you see. 2. When someone is tested positively, you add the list of uuids you used to a public list (run e.g. by the government) 3. Clients fetch updates to the list and compare it to the logged uuids and alert the user if there is a match. This way the government could not identify individuals, and individuals would be in control.
- pat2man 7y agoYeah thats pretty much how the spec works. But with key pairs instead of UUIDs.
- mygo 7y agoI said if they can’t be personally identified. Note the qualifier.
- dependenttypes 7y agoAnd I said that they can always be personally identified.
- FabHK 7y agoYes. This has an identifier (RPI) that changes every 10 minutes (in a way that can’t feasibly be tied back together, unless you declare yourself infected and upload your diagnosis key), and it does not share or upload any location data whatsoever. All it does is store the RPIs it sees, downloads diagnosis keys, and checks whether any of the RPIs it has stored “belongs” to one of the diagnosis keys it has downloaded.