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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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Natasha Lomas has recently written 10 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "Remember Do Not Track? The tracker-loving adtech industry hopes you dont recall that decade+ doomed attempt to bake user-friendly privacy controls into browsers". (October 7, 2020)
  2. "As TC readers know, the tricky trade-off of the modern web is privacy for convenience. Online tracking is how this great intimacy robbery is pulled off". (December 8, 2020)
  3. "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)
  4. "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)
  5. "Mozilla has further beefed up anti-tracking measures in its Firefox browser". (February 24, 2021)
  6. "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)
  7. "One of the first national coronavirus contacts tracing apps to be launched in Europe is being suspended in Norway after the countrys data protection authority raised concerns that the software, called Smittestopp, poses a disproportionate threat to user privacy includin". (June 15, 2020)
  8. "Automattic, the open source force behind WordPress .com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and Tumblr, has made a $4.6M strategic investment into New Vector the creators of an open, decentralized communications standard calledMatrix". (May 21, 2020)
  9. "A unique device identifier that Apple assigns to each iPhone for third parties to track users for ad targeting aka the IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) is itself now the target of two new complaints filed by European privacy campaign not-for-profit, noyb". (November 16, 2020)
  10. "The question of how policymakers should respond to the power of big tech didnt get a great deal of airtime at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, despite a number of investigations now underway in the United States (hi, Google)". (September 22, 2020)
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