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EU privacy experts push a decentralized approach to COVID-19 contacts tracing

A group of Ecu privacy pros has proposed a decentralized system for Bluetooth-based COVID-19 contacts tracing which they argue provides better protection against abuse and misuse of other folks’s wisdom than apps which pull wisdom into centralized pots. The protocol — which they’re …
A group of European privacy experts has proposed a decentralized system for Bluetooth-based COVID-19 contacts tracing which they argue offers greater protection against abuse and misuse of people’s data than apps which pull data into centralized pots. The protocol — which they’re …

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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  5. "Mozilla has further beefed up anti-tracking measures in its Firefox browser". (February 24, 2021)
  6. "The coronavirus is proving to have an unexpected upside for the adtech industry". (May 7, 2020)
  7. "The FTC has reached a settlement with Flo, a period and fertility tracking app with 100 million+ users, over allegations it shared users health data with third-party app analytics and marketing services like Facebook despite promising to keep users sensitive health data private". (January 13, 2021)
  8. "Privacy concerns that have been driving app users to alternative chat apps like Signal and Telegram in recent weeks, since Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced a T&Cs change, appear to also be generating some uplift for end-to-end encrypted email providers". (January 14, 2021)
  9. "The UK has given up building a centralized coronavirus contacts-tracing app and will instead switch to a decentralized app architecture, the BBC has reported". (June 18, 2020)
  10. "A month after Europes top court struck down a flagship data transfer arrangement between the EU and the US as unsafe, European privacy campaign group, noyb, has filed complaints against 101 websites with regional operators which its identified as still sending data to the US via Googl". (August 18, 2020)
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