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With regards,
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27 June 2013

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Monday 23 March 2020

Mobiles for Tracking Corona Movements ?




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 Quarantineapp — 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 (56). 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 witha 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
                       https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2016/06/from-bad-to-mad.html      ]

Ø  Centralized Database of Health Records
[ Source : https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2019/07/health-data-vault.html                   ]

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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