We Know Where You Were Last Night and Right Now: Contact Tracing & Your Future

The buzz: Ripped from the headlines. WebMD.com: “Contact tracing is essentially detective work.“… “One of the oldest public health tactics, dating back centuries.” CNN.com: …public health staff work with a patient to help them recall everyone with whom they have had close contact during the timeframe while they may have been infectious. To protect patient privacy, contacts are only informed that they may have been exposed to a patient with the infection…not the identity of the patient… [CDC) . ZDnet.com: “…gathering information about people's geo-location and other personal data, to aid management of the pandemic, risks infringing on our individual privacy more than ever before.”…“We might never get rid of it (Prof. Ross Anderson). We’ll ask Heather Federman at Big ID, Joe Jerome at Common Sense Media, Sara Collins at PublicKnowledge, and Kenesa Ahmad at Aleada for their take on these privacy issues on We Know Where You Were Last Night and Right Now: Contact Tracing & Your Future.