[liberationtech] Strength of Political Action, In The Era of COVID-19... More Theatrics & Side-Shows.

[David Stodolsky]

Credential solution for low resource areas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3totKQ_BnBc <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3totKQ_BnBc>

https://medium.com/coviid/our-vision-for-covi-id-3ee2a1fe3049 <https://medium.com/coviid/our-vision-for-covi-id-3ee2a1fe3049>

It is interesting that an (inferior) credential approach is only in implementation in this low resource area. However, this does suggest ISI on the right track in avoiding the privacy wars associated with contact-tracing. A Chinese app allows users to display a Red,Yellow, or Green QR-code on their phones, but this has no privacy protection. It does motivate users, however, since the inability to display the QR-code makes life inconvenient at best. 

In general, interest in finding out whether you have been exposed will be low. On the other hand, a credentialing method that rewards the user by risk avoidance, has proper motivational characteristics. 


dss

> On 24 Apr 2020, at 04:01, Robert Mathews (OSIA) <mathews at hawaii.edu> wrote:
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> 
> On 4/23/20 5:26 AM, David Stodolsky wrote:
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>> This appears to be virtue signaling. France is asking that the Apple/Google tracing security be relaxed. 
>>> https://apple.slashdot.org/story/20/04/21/2019202/france-says-apple-bluetooth-policy-is-blocking-virus-tracker#comments <https://apple.slashdot.org/story/20/04/21/2019202/france-says-apple-bluetooth-policy-is-blocking-virus-tracker#comments>
>> It appears that France has developed a slightly less secure tracing method than the coming Apple/Google API/OS built-in. The current limitation is that Apple doesn’t allow Bluetooth to run on the iPhone, if the app is in the background and the data leaves the phone. This has crippled TraceTogether, etc., since it makes tracing impractical with the iPhone.
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>> dss
>> 
>> David Stodolsky, PhD                   Institute for Social Informatics
>> Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark
>> dss at socialinformatics.org <mailto:dss at socialinformatics.org>          Tel./Signal: +45 3095 4070
> 
> Notions of 'contact tracing' must be considered in broader 'technical' and 'technological' terms.   For instance, consider this following headline, which I have been discussing with my team since its publication.
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> "2 billion phones cannot use Google and Apple contact-tracing tech System developed by Silicon Valley relies on technology missing from older handsets."
> TIM BRADSHAW, FT.COM - 4/20/2020, 12:29 PM
> arsTECHNICA
> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/2-billion-phones-cannot-use-google-and-apple-contract-tracing-tech/ <https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/2-billion-phones-cannot-use-google-and-apple-contract-tracing-tech/>
>  
> MANY such subscriber-linked mobile handsets in-service are located within the Continent of Africa, and the Indian Sub-Continent.  And, they are MOSTLY NOT - iPhone 10s.
> 
> Of this, I shared the following sentiment with my staff and extended teams....
> This story SHOULD teach us that, no matter how LARGE any "tech" company may be, if those human beings WITHIN are NOT disposed to understanding "SYSTEMS" more wholistically (a widely abused term), products born out of this lack of understanding cannot be expected to meet basic aspects of functionality .  It also goes without saying that SYSTEMS so constructed can also 'not' be expected to 'INTEROPERATE reliably' with OTHER systems of a LIKE, and/or UNLIKE construction too.
> In this respect at least, and more importantly, taking note of the UNIVERSALITY of COVID-19, backward operational compatibility and INCLUSIVITY should have been critical 'usability' considerations.
> -- 
> Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.
> Principal Technologist &
> Distinguished Senior Research Scholar
> Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)
> University of Hawai'i

David Stodolsky, PhD                   Institute for Social Informatics
Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark
dss at socialinformatics.org          Tel./Signal: +45 3095 4070

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