Context :
Extract :
Ø Poland
released an app last week that requires people who have returned from traveling
abroad to
send selfies periodically,
proving that they’re safe indoors for the full mandatory 14-day quarantine, according to AFP.
Ø If a selfie gets
requested through the “Home
Quarantine” app — the requests are
randomly timed throughout the day — and 20 minutes elapse, the police are
notified. Fines run anywhere between about $118 to $1,180 according to the
local police force.
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Extract :
Ø Comparing the public response to interventions, in terms of
the rate of movement over an entire county from one day
to the next, measured against a baseline from normal
times, can provide insight into the degree to which recommendations on social distancing are
being followed. We will need these estimates, not only now but also when we
need to resume life again without risking a major resurgence
Ø Consent-based data sharing models and data protection laws provide for the legal
grounds to use personal data during emergencies, but we do not advocate the use of individual data (5, 6). The measures proposed do not need to run afoul of data
protection goals, as a recent statement by the Chair of the European Data
Protection Board in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak clarifies (7).
Ø Deutsche Telekom has shared aggregated data with Germany to help measure
social distancing, in compliance with EU laws (9). The more such analyses are initiated and concluded openly,
and in accordance with the law, the greater will be the public trust and our
ability to produce reliable analytic insights.
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Cellphone tracking
could help stem the spread of coronavirus. Is privacy the price?
Extract :
Ø Such contact tracing is a mainstay of infectious disease control. But the Oxford team is one of
several now advocating for a new approach: tapping into cellphone location data to track the
spread of infection and warn people who may have been exposed.
Ø China, for example, has reportedly relied on mass surveillance of phones to
classify individuals by their health status and restrict their movements.
Ø “No matter how many resources you put into [contact tracing], it’s
never going to keep ahead of the virus,” he says. “It’s always going to be one
or two generations ahead.”
Ø To stop the epidemic, health officials must reduce the
virus’ reproductive number—the average number of people each infected
person transmits the virus to—to less than one.
When
the team modeled a scenario in which contacts were notified the instant a
person tested positive, it was
possible to push the reproductive rate of the virus below that threshold, the team reported in a preprint this week.
Ø At its simplest, digital contact tracing might work like
this: Phones log their own locations; when the owner of a phone tests positive for COVID-19, a record of their recent movements is shared with
health officials;
Owners of any other phones that recently came close to that
phone get notified of
their
risk of infection and are advised to self-isolate.
Ø “They’re essentially texting people, saying, ‘Hey, there’s been a 60-year-old woman who’s positive for
COVID. Click this for more information about her path,’” says Anne Liu, a global health expert at Columbia
University.
Ø In countries with strict data privacy
laws, one option for collecting data is to ask telecommunications and other tech companies to share
anonymous, aggregated information they’ve already gathered
Ø German health ministry had drafted changes to a law called
the Infection Protection Act to allow,
among other things, the tracking
of people who were in
contact with those infected with the coronavirus.
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Ramesh
Raskar's MIT Team Builds App That Tells If Someone's Infected With COVID-19
Near You
A future
iteration of the app, soon to be released, would compare a
user’s recent locations against the path of an infected person and alert them of potential contact
The team,
which includes collaborators from Harvard University and the Mayo Clinic, is in discussions with “ a dozen cities and
nations in all parts of the world,” about
running pilot trials of the app, Raskar [raskar@media.mit.ed ] says.
Though a
combination of GPS tracking, wireless network data, and connections between
phones via Bluetooth, Beutel says the app should be
able to detect when a phone comes within 1
meter of another phone
Designed with data security
and privacy protection at its heart, MIT Private Kit is the next generation
of secure location logging
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Here are my suggestions :
OLD SUGGESTIONS
[ Earlier sent as E-Mail to Cabinet Ministers ] :
Ø Thermal Imaging
software embedded into roadside CCTV cameras ( with Infrared Night Vision ) all over the
cities / towns ( or embedded into cameras mounted on Drones ) + embedded Facial
Recognition Software + Software to link each captured face with Aadhar Database
( photo + Biometric ) of all citizen
Ø Work from Home ( WFH )
Ø
Location
tracking using e-PMB Mobile App
Ø
Centralized
Database of Health Records
Ø
Enable millions ( who are rendered
JOBLESS ) , to earn
Rs 30,000 pm , by implementing,
Digital Dividend from Demographic Data
Ø
WHO ( which doctor ) , prescribed WHAT drug ( drug name )
made by WHO (
name
of drug manufacturer ) , to WHOM (patient name ) ,
and WHY ( disease
diagnosis
) , and WHEN ( date ) and sold by WHICH ( drug store )
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Re-Hashed SUGGESTIONS :
Ø Hold in abeyance for ONE YEAR, proposed
# DATA PROTECTION LAW
# E-Comm Policy
Ø Make CENCUS / NPR , a
pure Mobile App based
exercise ( with 24x7 dynamic / continuous UP-DATING by citizen from
privacy of their homes ( No need for 33 lakh enumerators to increase the probability
of spreading Corona Virus, by visiting millions of homes
Ø Immediately phone up Prof.
Ramesh Raskar {
MIT } and implement Mobile App developed by his team, by issue of an
appropriate ORDINANCE , to be converted into a Infection Protection Act , within 6 months
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Dear
Shri RaviShankar Prasadji / Dr HarshVardhanji ,
The alacrity and the vision with which you
have tackled the current Corona Crisis , are commendable and deserve a BIG “
Thank You “
But considering the rate at which people
around the World are getting infected ( person to person transmission ), we
need a lot more URGENT / STRINGENT steps, to save lakhs of our citizen from
dying
Please , without any hesitation, immediately
promulgate a HEALTH
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE
, which temporarily suspends PERSONAL DATA PRIVACY rights
of all citizen and enable the Government to enforce rules / regulations in
overall NATIONAL INTEREST
PLEASE , REQUEST SHRI MODIJI, TO ANNOUNCE THIS TO THE NATION IN HIS PLANNED
ADDRESS AT 8 PM TODAY
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24 March 2020
hcp@RecruitGuru.com
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