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Moxie Marlinspike
moxie
First look at Apple/Google contact tracing framework:1) Once a day, your device derives a new key ("daily tracing key").2) It uses that to derive a new "proximity ID" every time
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timdunlop
timdunlop
As @R_Chirgwin pointed out: why is this framed as a test for the public? Spare me from journalists who think their job is to manage how the public comply with
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Texas Tribune
TexasTribune
1/ As coronavirus cases steadily rise in Texas, the state has recently cut hundreds of workers from its contact tracing workforce. Today, about 2,800 contact tracers work in Texas —
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Jordan Schachtel
JordanSchachtel
Gov. Whitmer is contracting an exclusively partisan democratic political firm (Every Action VAN. Look up NGP VAN, its parent company) to do contact tracing of Michigan residents. Major scandal in
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
The "contact tracing" apps don't do "contact tracing" - they do "exposure notification." Contact tracing is a labor-intensive shoe-leather process built on relationships and it is stubbornly resistant to au
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Michael Veale
mikarv
How exactly can #DP3T privacy-preserving Bluetooth COVID-19 alerts work if identifiable personal data never leaves your device? It's actually not so complicated, and even less so now @ncasenmare has made
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Z - I provide the Korean Sauce
LordZesus
The @/lolpaja and @/Vikan_Pykan discourse continues, and lot of shits are being flung on both sides. Nevertheless, Paja is literally engaging in mass harassment against Vikan right now.Now, there's a
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Dr Godfrey Gandawa
DrGGandawa
1/6 The lockdown in Zimbabwe is on course to fail for a number of reasons. This is unsurprising because, from the beginning, govt misunderstood the mechanics of a lockdown which
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Rowland Manthorpe
rowlsmanthorpe
NEW: The contact tracing app is sending notifications telling people they've been near someone with covid-19They haven't. These are "default messages" from Google & Apple I spoke to scared and
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briar
OnionGremlin
if u wanna get good at drawing anatomy and shapes and stuff whole ass just draw on pictures and get shapes figured out Yes I Am Advocating That You Tracedon't
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Derek Thompson
DKThomp
I wrote about “test and trace" and the plan to return to normal before a vaccine.Most people understand what testing means. So, what is tracing?https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/contact-tracing-could-free-america-from-its-quarant
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Michael Veale
mikarv
Apple & Google's annoucement provides HUGE support for #DP3T against centralised solutions, which *no longer work* under it. The API they specify lets devices to query list of IDs they
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Carlos Gonzales
Mabl2K
I decided to support @Europol’s #StopChildAbuse #TraceAnObject exactly one year ago after watching a @BBCWorld report from @SamJudah.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-47660347/tracing-child-abusers-where-was-this-picture-taken I joined @Bellingca
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Antoine FLAHAULT
FLAHAULT
1/13 - “To fight a super-spreading disease effectively, policy makers need to figure out why super-spreading happens, and they need to understand how it affects everything, including our contact-tracing methods
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George “WASH YOUR HANDS” Scriban
scribandotcom
Setting aside some *major* challenges—privacy, adoption, accuracy, adherence, prevalence, backwards compatibility—it's a *significant* development for the two major mobile platform companies to create interoperable APIs for public health apps.Lik
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Ciaran Jenkins
C4Ciaran
Yesterday I asked @nicolasturgeon why Scotland had stopped contact tracing against @WHO recommendations. She suggested I had got this wrong. Also yesterday, here is @WHO on the importance of contact
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