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Contact tracing is being touted as essential to controlling the spread of COVID-19, but it comes with alarming concerns related to our rights to privacy.
Despite criticism, the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app seems well designed.
From conflicts with specialised medical devices, through to unresolved problems with iPhone functionality, COVIDSafe is in need of updates. A major one may come within the next few weeks.
A critical problem with the bill is it allows the federal government to collect much more personal data from COVIDSafe users than is necessary for contact tracing.
Are criticisms that governments should have done more fair?
Bluetooth wireless communication makes it possible to track when people have been exposed to people infected with the coronavirus. The right cryptography scheme keeps alerts about exposures private.
One bespoke contact tracing device is a bluetooth ‘pen’ device, which can be handed in if diagnosed without relying on smartphones.
Behavioural economics has three key insights to encourage take-up of the contact-tracing app.
Technology exists that can verify if you’ve come into contact with an infected person without revealing your location or identity – governments just need to be willing to use it.
South Africa is taking seriously concerns about the risks that monitoring can pose for human rights. But there are still loopholes.
While preliminary tests indicate user data isn’t being sent to the government, a publicly-available source code is needed to ensure the app’s transparency.
For the app to work well, we might need an 80% take-up. Unless it is made mandatory, we’ll need both private and social incentives.
As New Zealand prepares to ease its lockdown from April 28, new COVID-19 clusters are likely to emerge – but a combination of testing and contact tracing should be able to stamp out major outbreaks.
Behavioural economics research suggests very few people will cooperate unless ‘free riders’ are punished.
In addition to testing and special facilities for COVID-19 patients, the country’s government-run tracking system allows the health care system to identify infected people and their contacts.
Social science researchers can help make sure contact tracing is carried out in all provinces in Indonesia.
New Zealand will begin easing its national lockdown from next Tuesday, after an extra five days of some of the world’s strictest COVID-19 restrictions. Six NZ experts give their take on the news.
The variation captured in these genomes, when compared to genomes sampled elsewhere, provides a fingerprint that might be associated with a particular virus and a particular cluster of transmission.
The federal government wants Australians to sign up to the TraceTogether app, which logs your social interactions via bluetooth. But how much privacy will we sacrifice to combat COVID-19?
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Physics, University of Auckland
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Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Associate professor, University of Canterbury
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Research assistant, University of Auckland
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Research associate professor, University of Otago
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Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne; Senior Research Fellow, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University of Canterbury
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Professor of Law and Information Systems, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in Health and Medical Geography; Deputy Director GeoHealth Laboratory, University of Canterbury
