[liberationtech] Harvard launches contact tracing app

[Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes]

This is really awful, George Orwell’s and Michel Foucault’s worst nightmare: “24x7 ubiquitous surveillance” unless you decide to go off-grid and drink Labbatt’s in the Canadian wilderness

Regards / Saludos / Grato

Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes

> On Aug 7, 2020, at 10:45 AM, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From the article:
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> Harvard began piloting Tracefi — a Wi-Fi-based contact tracing system — this past Friday in preparation for freshmen and a select group of upperclassmen students’ return to campus later this month.
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> Tracefi uses the signals phones, laptops, and tablets constantly emit to Harvard’s Wi-Fi infrastructures to gather three pieces of information: a datetime stamp, the signal strength received by Harvard’s Wi-Fi infrastructure, and the MAC address of the mobile device. The system then stores the data for up to 28 days.
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> Harvard will use the Tracefi data to aid contract tracing efforts run by Harvard University Health Services and Harvard University Information Technology by providing information to human contact tracers about the specific whereabouts of infected individuals.
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> https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/8/2/tracefi-wifi-contract-tracing-coronavirus/
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