BU Researchers Propose Method for Controlling COVID-19 through Cellphones
CISE faculty affiliate Ari Trachtenberg along with fellow Boston University Computer Science professors Mayank Varia, and Ran Canetti recently published a paper that proposes a method for using cellphones to track COVID-19, while protecting user privacy.
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Trachtenberg explains in his blog post, “When a person is tested positive for COVID-19, the person could choose (through the administering medical professional) to voluntarily share their list of random numbers — either their own generated numbers or the numbers that the app observed (we’re considering either scenario) with an authoritative site (e.g., the CDC), that would make the numbers publicly available.”
Read media coverage of the paper in The Brink, Techtalks, ZDNet, TechRepublic and Silicon.co.uk.