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The Linux Foundation Wants Open-Source Tech to Address Future Pandemics
12.8.2020
The Linux Foundation hopes open-source apps will play a key role in tracing exposure to diseases like COVID-19 while being fully transparent
The Queens Politician Who Wants to Give New Yorkers Their Own Crypto
19.6.2020
Assemblyperson Ron Kim has proposed a decentralized contact tracing protocol and a blockchain-based public banking system for New Yorkers
Bitcoin News Roundup for June 18, 2020
18.6.2020
With an Austrian app that aims to track COVID-19 now including blockchain, CoinDesk's Markets Daily Bitcoin news roundup is back!
Austrian Government Funds Development of Blockchain-Based COVID-19 App
17.6.2020
Austria's economic affairs ministry awarded a $67,600 grant to a project called QualiSig, which uses the Ardor blockchain to verify COVID-19 testing
From Australia to Norway, Contact Tracing Is Struggling to Meet Expectations
16.6.2020
The world is awash in COVID-19 contact tracing apps but few seem to be delivering on their promises
Minnesota Official Alarms Privacy Advocates With Contact Tracing Comments
3.6.2020
Comments from a Minnesota official comparing law enforcement to contact tracing alerted privacy activists to the dangers of misusing COVID-19 health data
How Contact Tracing Can Be Effective While Guarding Privacy
28.5.2020
A member of the Hyperledger Identity Working Group on how we can keep track of COVID-19 without giving up our digital rights
Citizen App’s New Contact Tracing Feature Raises Privacy Red Flags
20.5.2020
The Citizen app, which normally fights crime, is now tracing coronavirus cases. Is your data safe with a powerful private company?
For Contact Tracing That Preserves Privacy, Focus on Incentives
24.4.2020
Even the best technologies are useless if no one uses them, says our columnist. And that's especially true for contact tracing
COVID-19 Tracing Apps Have to Go Viral to Work. That’s a Big Ask
24.4.2020
How do you make it so people actually want to download a contact tracing app?
European Contact Tracing Consortium Faces Wave of Defections Over Centralization Concerns
20.4.2020
Contact tracing researchers fear Europe could choose a centralized system that puts personal privacy at risk
Baseline Developers Propose DTL-Based Coronavirus Contact Tracing
17.4.2020
Baseline devs suggest solutions to the privacy & security issues identified with Google and Apple’s proposed contract tracing system
Decentralized Protocol Removed From EU Contact Tracing Website Without Notice
16.4.2020
EU researchers are concerned after their proposal for a decentralized contact tracing system was rejected without explanation
For Contact Tracing to Work, Americans Will Have to Trust Google and Apple
14.4.2020
Critics have doubts that Google and Apple can make their contact tracing system work. Key issue: trust
Europe Debates COVID-19 Contact Tracing That Respects Privacy
13.4.2020
European researchers are looking for ways to track the spread of coronavirus while respecting privacy rights