Paper 2020/426

Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing: current solutions and open questions

Qiang Tang

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a unique challenge for the world to find solutions, ranging from vaccines to ICT solutions to slow down the virus spreading. Due to the highly contagious nature of the virus, social distancing is one fundamental measure which has already adopted by many countries. At the technical level, this prioritises contact tracing solutions, which can alert the users who have been in close contact with the infected persons and meanwhile allow heath authorities to take proper actions. In this paper, we examine several existing privacy-aware contact tracing solutions and analyse their (dis)advantages. At the end, we describe several major observations and outline an interdisciplinary research agenda towards more comprehensive and effective privacy-aware contact tracing solutions.

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Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
COVID-19contact trackinglocation dataprivacyauthenticity
Contact author(s)
qiang tang @ list lu
History
2020-04-25: last of 3 revisions
2020-04-15: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2020/426
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/426,
      author = {Qiang Tang},
      title = {Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing: current solutions and open questions},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2020/426},
      year = {2020},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/426}
}
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