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Are contact tracing apps worth the privacy trade-offs? We don’t know
- Friday | 5th June, 2020
But while applying those capabilities to contact tracing make sense, the current heightened awareness of data privacy means that governments who want to mandate contact tracing apps have to (or at least ought to) be sure the apps don’t violate local or international data privacy laws. (In other words, is the privacy policy easy to read, or is it the usual 30 pages of microscopic fine print?) Anecdotally, reports surfaced last month that while Iceland’s overall contact tracing program had been a success in keeping the spread of COVID-19 under control, the government’s contact tracing app (Rakning C-19) had very little to do with it. MIT Technology Review has launched a Covid Tracing Tracker – a database with information on automated contact tracing apps. So we know that it’s at least possible to develop automated contact tracing without sacrificing privacy.
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