MIT has launched a global catalogue of contact tracing apps that are considered of an official or sanctioned national government or equivalent governmental body effort
The log is a relatively straightforward spreadsheet that indicates self-reported answers to these five questions about each listed contact tracking app:
- Voluntary: Is it voluntary?
- Limited: Are there limitations on how the data gets used?
- Data Destruction: Will data be destroyed after a period of time?
- Minimized: Is data collection minimized?
- Transparent: Is the effort transparent?
Information about each contact tracing app includes:
- Country location
- Name of the app
- Whether Bluetooth is used
- Whether the Google/Apple protocol is used
- Whether DP-3T is used (Bluetooth-based protocol)
- Other
MIT is not certifying or validating the info shown and so it should be interpreted accordingly.
The five questions that MIT opted to select were based on a White Paper produced by the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), an American non-profit entity.
Reporting by Dr Lance Eliot our US Associate Editor for Computers & Law
