In the inaugural Privacy column for Communications of the ACM, Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science, Engineering, Public Policy and CyLab Director Lorrie Faith Cranor, CIPT, writes privacy-enhancing technologies might be ideal for contact-tracing and exposure notification applications used to fight COVID-19. But that won’t solve the pandemic alone. “The problem these apps are trying to solve is not just a technology problem, and digital technology alone is unlikely to be the solution. As with many privacy problems, solutions should involve both policy and technology,” she writes.
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