We Know Where You Were Last Night and Right Now: Contact Tracing & Your Future

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The buzz: Ripped from the headlines. WebMD.com: “Contact tracing is essentially detective work.“… “One of the oldest public health tactics, dating back centuries.” CNN.com: …public health staff work with a patient to help them recall everyone with whom they have had close contact during the timeframe while they may have been infectious. To protect patient privacy, contacts are only informed that they may have been exposed to a patient with the infection…not the identity of the patient… [CDC) . ZDnet.com: “…gathering information about people's geo-location and other personal data, to aid management of the pandemic, risks infringing on our individual privacy more than ever before.”…“We might never get rid of it (Prof. Ross Anderson). We’ll ask Heather Federman at Big ID, Joe Jerome at Common Sense Media, Sara Collins at PublicKnowledge, and Kenesa Ahmad at Aleada for their take on these privacy issues on We Know Where You Were Last Night and Right Now: Contact Tracing & Your Future.

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, ready here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:15.6	Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.
0:26.7	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:30.2	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now.
0:34.0	Bonnie D. Graham.
0:35.6	I always smile when I hear that intro. That's the voice of my co-producer and the VP at World Talk Radio, Bonnie D. Graham. I always smile when I hear that intro.
0:37.8	That's the voice of my co-producer and the VP at World Talk Radio, Voice America.
0:41.9	Ryan, Treasure.
0:43.0	I love the reverb on that, Ryan.
0:45.2	Welcome, welcome, welcome.
0:47.2	Our topic today is ripped literally from the headlines.
0:50.4	It might scare some of you a little bit, but it's the real world in which we live.
0:54.3	No, we're not talking.
0:55.7	Politics, but you may think there's a little political overtone to some of the statements my guess are going to make.
1:01.6	So let's see what we've got here.
1:03.0	I have a quote from webmd.com, and it says, contact tracing.
1:07.8	Yep, that's our topic.
1:09.4	Contact tracing is essentially detective work. And they also say one of the oldest public health tactics dating back centuries. Who knew? Now I have a quote from CNN.com, and this apparently is from the CDC.
1:23.7	Public health staff work with a patient to help them recall everyone with whom they have had close contact during the time frame while they may have been infectious.
1:33.3	And this is referring to COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, whatever you want to call it, the current global health pandemic.
1:39.3	To protect patient privacy, contacts are only informed they may have been exposed to a patient
1:46.0	with the infection, but not the identity of the patient. Okay, let that sink in. Now I have a quote
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