According to https://www.scip.ch/?news.20200402 , PEPP-PT has some roots in https://github.com/SecureTagForApproachRecognition.
TPS https://freeupmobile.com/?refer=00166887 On Wed, Apr 1, 2020, 9:25 AM Marcus Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > I just came across this: https://www.pepp-pt.org/ > > Which seems to be all over the news today. > Unfortunately they don't seem to plan on providing this as a free > software solution: > > > We are establishing a partner management team to help you get going > quickly. > > As a partner, you will: … have access to our documentation and the > source code of a reference implementation. > > Does anyone have any contacts there or a a plan on how to approach them > with the idea of making this free software? > > Best, > Marcus > > On 19.03.20 16:26, Nathan of Guardian wrote: > > > > With the previous news from China of their authoritarian surveillance > > system being repurposed for epidemiological uses, and the US governments > > interest in the same, I have been mulling what other approaches could be > > taken. Those of us who care about and work in privacy-enhancing > technology > > do not want this pandemic to become yet another moment for an > acceleration > > of rights erosion on this front. Simultaneously, I understand that > contact > > tracing of a contagious person is key to fighting any outbreak. Also, > that > > being able to gain general insights into movement and distance between > > citizens in a country can also be very helpful. > > > > To cut to the chase, I have some ideas, and I am hoping to find out who > out > > there may be advocating for or working on this problem. We need to > provide > > alternatives to the most obvious, least private solutions, and quick. > > > > To summarize my concept, Jonnie Penn and I have been working on a project > > (Spotlight![0]) aimed at allowing unionized workers to gather data about > > their work days, which includes very detailed geospatial data, movement > > history and more. In my testing, I can see my movement through the > shopping > > isles at Trader Joe's, the hallways in my kids' school, and how long I > > spend in my kitchen vs my home office in a typical day. All of this data > is > > securely stored on the user's device, until they choose to share it with > an > > advocate. I believe the approach we are taking to provide insights into a > > worker's day could be helpful for public health applications, as well. > > > > My concept is that through use of technology like Bloom Filters[0] or > > Google's Private Join and Compute[1], a user could compare their own > > time+place data (essentially a set of hashes) to publicly released data > of > > positive / contagious cases. You could both check for exact co-presence, > as > > well as a before/after time range. If there was a match, then they alone > > would decide what to do. Ideally any system would tell them to > self-isolate > > at the list, provide local testing options, and also ask them to share > > their anonymized data set of time+place hashes, to be added into the > > centrally stored aggregated mix of potential contract time+place hashes. > > > > I know there are researchers at BU working on civic applications for > > multi-party computation[3], and plan to reach out to them. Who else > should > > I be talking to? Are Google, Apple, Facebook and others already thinking > > along these lines? They surely have the motherload of location data at > this > > resolution, but again, as we have seen in previous cases with national > > security and law enforcement, these are tricky boxes to close once they > are > > opened. > > > > Thanks for any thoughts, contacts or feedback. > > > > Take care, stay soapy, > > Nathan > > > > p.s. Shout-out to all of you home schooling parents out there. I mean I > > have had in-office interns and research assistants before, but usually > they > > are a bit more qualified! :) > > > > [0] https://spotlightproject.gitlab.io/ > > > > [1] https://llimllib.github.io/bloomfilter-tutorial/ > > > > [2] > > > https://security.googleblog.com/2019/06/helping-organizations-do-more-without-collecting-more-data.html > > > > [3] https://multiparty.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev > > To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev > To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] >
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