Covid-19 Tracking White Papers

This is a (very incomplete) list, current as of 27/04/20, of links to articles/white papers related to proposed technological systems for Covid-19 contact tracing. If you have any suggestions, please email them to me - jack AT jackmcdonald.org

Proposals

Apple/Google bluetooth proposal
BlueTrace Protocol
- Full site https://bluetrace.io/
DP-3T
- White Paper
  - Current: April 12
  - April 3
- Overview of Data Protection and Security
  - Current: April 3
- Simplified 3 Page Brief
  - Current: April 3

Papers

Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing - Science, Luca Ferretti et al, 31 March 2020

Trackers

Tracking the Global Response to COVID-19 - Privacy International

Articles

What price privacy? Contact tracing apps to combat Covid, The Interpreter, Xueyin Zha, 16 April 2020
How Digital Contact Tracing Slowed Covid-19 in East Asia - Harvard Business Review, Yasheng Huang , Meicen Sun and Yuze Sui, 15 April 2020
Wanted: An exit strategy from the overt surveillance of smartphone contact tracing - Simon Sharwood, 14 April 2020
Contact Tracing in the Real World - Light Blue Touchpaper, 12 April 2020
The Challenge of Proximity Apps For COVID-19 Contact Tracing - Andrew Crocker, Kurt Opsahl, and Bennett Cyphers, 10 April 2020
How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw - Zynep Tufekci, 22 February 2020

General

How to manage a pandemic - Technology Review, James Crabtree, 14 April 2020
COVID-19, Information Problems, and Digital Surveillance - Center for Global Development, Michael Pisa, 20 March 2020

Countries

UK

NHS App - Name TBC
- How is the CDEI supporting the response to COVID-19? - Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation Blog, by Alex Lawrence, 27 April 2020
- [https://healthtech.blog.gov.uk/2020/04/24/digital-contact-tracing-protecting-the-nhs-and-saving-lives/](Digital contact tracing: protecting the NHS and saving lives) - Technology in the NHS blog, by Matthew Gould and Dr Geraint Lewis, 24 April 2020
- Biometrics Commissioner statement on the use of symptom tracking applications - Gov.uk, 21 April, 2020
- Coronavirus: UK confirms plan for its own contact tracing app, Leo Kelion, 12 April 2020. Note: NHSX “will test a pre-release version of the software with families at a secure location in the North of England next week.”
- Open Letter: Contact Tracking and NHSX - Rachel Coldicutt, 23 March 2020
Other
- OSF UK Bill proposal

Australia

COVIDSafe
- Government page - Department of Health
- COVIDSafe Application Privacy Impact Assessment
- Department of Health Response to Privacy Impact Assessment
Other
- The new transparency: smartphones, data tracking, and COVID-19 - Monash University, Mark Andrejevic and Neil Selwyn, 9 March 2020

China

Close Contact Detector
- China launches coronavirus ‘close contact detector’ in effort to reassure public over health risks - South China Morning Post, Coco Feng, 12 February 2020
- China launches coronavirus ‘close contact detector’ app - BBC News, 11 February 2020
Alipay Health Code
- Chinese technology against coronavirus: from thermometer drones to apps that squeak if you get sick - CE Noticias Financieras English
- In Coronavirus Fight, China Gives Citizens a Color Code, With Red Flags - New York Times, Paul Mozur, Raymond Zhong and Aaron Krolik, 3 March 2020
- Coronavirus tests Xi’s ‘heavenly mandate,’ but proves a godsend for his surveillance state - Washington Post, Anna Fifield, 3 March 2020
- Health code software brings convenience, but privacy should be respected: experts - Global Times, Zhang Dan, 2 March 2020
- Coronavirus: China rolls out far-reaching mass data experiment - The Irish Times, Paul Mozur, Raymond Zhong, Aaron Krolik, 2 March 2020
- Health rating system deployed in over 100 cities: Alipay - Technode, Nicole Jao, 20 February 2020
- Alipay developed China’s national health code rating system - Technode, Nicole Jao, 17 February 2020
General
- Hiding coronavirus symptoms is now a crime in Beijing - The National, Lynzy Billing, 19 March 2020
- China nutzt Corona für Zensur und Kontrolle - Die Welt, Sonja Gillert, 13 March 2020
- Mass Surveillance Threatens Personal Privacy Amid Coronavirus - Coindesk, Benjamin Powers, 12 March 2020
- Virus tracking apps aren’t helping fight panic - Technode, Nicole Jao, 26 February 2020
- How China is using QR code apps to contain Covid-19 - Technode, Nicole Jao, 25 February 2020

EU

General
- - McKinsey, David Chinn, Hauke Engel, Daniel Härtl, Milena Quittnat, Pal Erik Sjatil, Marja Seidel, Sven Smit, Sebastian Stern, and Eckart Windhagen, 8 April 2020
- Privacy minefield awaits EU states in race to halt coronavirus spread - Irish Independent, Douglas Busvine, 12 March 2020