Contact Tracing: Beyond the Apps
Mohamed F Mokbel, Sofiane Abbar, Rade Stanojevic

TL;DR
This paper proposes a new approach to digital contact tracing that shifts responsibility from individuals to facilities, emphasizing privacy-preserving architecture to improve effectiveness during pandemics.
Contribution
It introduces a novel framework where facilities are responsible for contact tracing, supported by a privacy-preserving architecture as a prerequisite for reopening.
Findings
Framework shifts contact tracing responsibility to facilities
Proposes privacy-preserving architecture for contact tracing
Supports safer reopening during pandemics
Abstract
As pandemic wide spread results in locking down vital facilities, digital contact tracing is deemed as a key for re-opening. However, current efforts in digital contact tracing, running as mobile apps on users' smartphones, fall short in being effective. This paper lays out the vision and guidelines for the next era of digital contact tracing, where the contact tracing functionality is moved from being personal responsibility to be the responsibility of facilities that users visit daily. A privacy-preserving architecture is proposed, which can be mandated as a prerequisite for any facility to re-open during or after the pandemic.
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Taxonomy
TopicsCOVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
