Apps Gone Rogue: Maintaining Personal Privacy in an Epidemic
Ramesh Raskar, Isabel Schunemann, Rachel Barbar, Kristen Vilcans, Jim, Gray, Praneeth Vepakomma, Suraj Kapa, Andrea Nuzzo, Rajiv Gupta, Alex Berke,, Dazza Greenwood, Christian Keegan, Shriank Kanaparti, Robson Beaudry, David, Stansbury, Beatriz Botero Arcila, Rishank Kanaparti

TL;DR
This paper reviews mobile phone-based contact-tracing technologies for epidemic containment, highlighting their potential benefits and privacy risks, and discusses advanced security approaches to mitigate these risks.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of technological approaches, analyzes privacy risks, and proposes security enhancements for mobile contact-tracing tools.
Findings
Mobile contact-tracing can aid epidemic containment
Privacy risks are significant and need mitigation
Security-enhancing approaches can reduce privacy concerns
Abstract
Containment, the key strategy in quickly halting an epidemic, requires rapid identification and quarantine of the infected individuals, determination of whom they have had close contact with in the previous days and weeks, and decontamination of locations the infected individual has visited. Achieving containment demands accurate and timely collection of the infected individual's location and contact history. Traditionally, this process is labor intensive, susceptible to memory errors, and fraught with privacy concerns. With the recent almost ubiquitous availability of smart phones, many people carry a tool which can be utilized to quickly identify an infected individual's contacts during an epidemic, such as the current 2019 novel Coronavirus crisis. Unfortunately, the very same first-generation contact tracing tools have been used to expand mass surveillance, limit individual freedoms…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCOVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
