The Privacy Concerns Behind App Based Contact Tracing

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VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve been listening to the news, chances are you’ve heard about it incessantly: contact tracing.

But what is it exactly? And what are the surveillance and privacy issues surrounding it? Will yet another app that tracks your movements really be the key to ending the pandemic?

Today we got Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Francheschi Bicchierai on the show to tell you everything you need to know about contact tracing.

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0:00.0	If you have the code it's going to launch.
0:07.0	It's a unit system.
0:12.0	I know this.
0:14.0	It's all the files of the whole park.
0:17.0	It tells her everything.
0:19.0	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:21.6	Eagle One. The package is being delivered.
0:23.6	If you've been listening to the news, chances are you've heard about it incessantly.
0:28.6	Contact tracing is becoming an increasingly important step to reopen the U.S. safely.
0:33.6	We know, of course, testing and tracing are so key when it comes to containing the spread of COVID-19.
0:40.0	We often hear the contact tracing is one of the keys to slowing the spread of COVID-19.
0:44.6	But what is contact tracing exactly? And what are the surveillance and privacy implications surrounding it?
0:50.6	Will yet another app that tracks your movements really be the key to ending the pandemic?
0:55.4	Today we got motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi Bikirai on the show to tell you everything
1:00.1	you need to know about contact tracing.
1:03.4	I'm Ben Maku, recording cyber from my kitchen. Record.
1:22.1	Okay, we're on.
1:23.9	Hello, Lorenzo.
1:25.9	Hi, Ben.
1:26.7	How are you doing?
1:27.6	I'm very good. I'm in my apartment again. How did you guess?
1:31.8	Oh, that's new. That's new.
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