Giving up privacy to fight COVID-19

Giving up privacy to fight COVID-19, would you want your phone to track you?

CORONAVIRUS...AND DETERMINE WHEN THISQUARANTINE COULD END...BUT THE QUESTION IS: HOW DOESIT WORK?

OUR PARTNERS ATNEWSY EXPLAIN.TAKE PKG (GFX) FOR DECADES,CONTACT TRACING HAS BEEN A KINDOF DETECTIVE WORK FOR FIGURINGOUT WHO'S SPREADING A VIRUS.BUT ON A LARGE SCALE, IT TAKESAN ARMY OF MONITORS CONDUCTINGINTERVIEWS.WHICH IS WHY CONTACT TRACING ISNOW GOING HIGH- TECH.SHOW DOTS, SPREADING TO OTHERS,ETC, ISOMETRIC VIEW?

ZOOM OUTTO MAP HERE'S HOW THAT COULDWORK.AS QUARANTINE WINDS DOWN, TWOSTRANGERS SHARE THE SAME PARKBENCH AND HAVE A BRIEFCONVERSATION.EACH OF THEIR PHONES HAVE ACONTACT TRACING APP THAT USESBLUETOOTH TO RECORD THAT THETWO DEVICES HAVE BEEN NEAR EACHOTHER THROUGH UNIQUEIDENTIFYING BEACONS.ON LEFT, 2 PEOPLE MEETING SHOWSIGNAL BETWEEN 2 PHONES, ID BYCOLOR A FEW DAYS LATER, ONE OFTHESE PEOPLE TESTS POSITIVE FORCOVID-19.HE ENTERS HIS TEST RESULT INTOTHE APP, AND ANY DEVICE THATCOLLECTED ONE OF HIS ID BEACONSOVER THE PAST 14 DAYS,CONTACT WITH SOMEONE WHO TESTEDPOSITIVE.(AOC) THIS KIND OF DIGITALCONTACT TRACING WASUSED IN SINGAPORE AND SOUTHKOREA, BOTH OF WHICHEFFECTIVELY SLOWED THE SPREADOF THE VIRUS.NOW, WITH MAJOR U.S.COMPANIES OFFERING TOOLS TODEPLOY THIS TECHNOLOGYWORLDWIDE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUTMAJOR POTENTIAL AS WELL ASMAJOR PRIVACY CONCERNS.[00:08:10] WE'VE ALWAYS BEENINTERESTED IN BALANCING WHATMEASURES ACTUALLY HELP AND WHATPUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALSACTUALLY HELP VS., YOU KNOW,GIVING THE GOVERNMENT AWISHLIST FOR SURE, SAIDSURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY THATTHEY'VE ASKED FOR FOR A WHILEAND ARE NOW USING COVID-19 ASAN EXCUSE TO FINALLY GET[00:08:28][18.9] MATTHEWGUARIGLIA IS WITH THEELECTRONIC FRONTIERFOUNDATION, THE WORLD'S TOPDIGITAL CIVIL LIBERTIES GROUP.THEY ACTUALLY COULD BE ON BOARDWITH LARGE-SCALE DIGITALCONTACT TRACING, IF IT'S DONEWITH THE RIGHT SAFEGUARDS.[00:10:17] I THINK ANONYMOUS ISIN THIS DATA IS IS INCREDIBLYIMPORTANT.RIGHT.BECAUSE OTHERWISE SOMEBODYLOOKING AT THE SPREADSHEET OFCONTACTS COULD EASILY KIND OFPUT THE PIECES TOGETHER ANDFIGURE OUT WHO IS HANGING OUTWITH WHO.." ANOTHER BIGSTICKING POINT FOR PRIVACYADVOCATES: WHETHER THE USE OFTHIS TRACING TECH IS VOLUNTARY...OR MANDATORY.[00:06:32] HAVING CONTACTTRACING WILL BE DONE AS AN OPTIN SURVEILLANCE MEASURE ISCERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT SEEMSMORE PALATABLE TO ME THAN, YOUKNOW, REQUIRING A MANDATORY APPON EVERYONE'S PHONE..."[00:12:15] SO I THINK THERE'S ALOT OF QUESTIONS THAT NEED TOBE ANSWERED.AND I THINK OPTING IN IS ONE OFTHE BEST WAYS TO MAKE THISEFFECTIVE.BUT ALSO PRIVACY RESPECTFUL.[00:12:25][10.1]TODAY, THE U-S AIR FORCEACADEMY HELD ITS