Recently, my colleague authored a resource (the 101 version of this “course,” for the academically inclined) to answer questions about European COVID-19 proximity tracing and exposure notification applications and to construct a best-practices framework for such apps. Now, we pivot our focus to the United States, where efforts to rally [...]
The end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020 have seen rampant attacks on an aspect of communications technologies we often take for granted: encryption. In addition to being the protective buffer of most internet traffic—everything from commercial transactions to social interactions—it also protects those who may need increased privacy, [...]
With most of the world under some level of lockdown, technological innovation continues to play a crucial role in our fight against COVID-19. Public authorities, policymakers, and medical experts rely on the use of aggregated data to inform their decision-making and mitigate the impact of the crisis. The COVID-19 outbreak [...]
In a global pandemic, we are embracing the online world as our “new normal.” If we didn’t already, we now conduct our work, shopping, and social lives on the web more than ever. So, it comes as no surprise that privacy and its close friend encryption have entered the scene, [...]
COVID-19 apps can play a crucial role in helping economies around the world restart safely. So far, there are 11 countries with official tracing apps in use, and at least 15 more nations that are either considering an official government app or where private solutions are in use. A variety [...]