As I'm sure everyone else is doing, we're working on plans for having our
campus community rejoin us at some point. The question of "how far back do you
keep wireless logs" was just asked which of course leads to "we want to see
where a person has been on a given day".
This of course has
The UK folks are supposedly looking at switching to the Apple/Google APIs.
That should address the background concerns as well as privacy issues with
their centralized model.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/07/uk-eyeing-switch-to-apple-google-api-for-coronavirus-contacts-tracing-report/
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For our first virtual meetup on April 17, we had over 100 people attend the
Zoom meeting. We covered 7 topics related to our response to handling the
changes in our campus environments caused by Covid-19. As CG Leaders,
Michael -
Yes, we are going through this exact same thing as of a few days ago.
The questions are currently coming from my CIO. I don't know if others
above her are asking any questions.
My assumption is that we will be utilizing WiFi data for (both with a
certain margin of error):
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It's pretty trivial today to look at a device/person's association data and
reconstruct where they've been. I suspect we all use this data from time to
time to diagnose a user reported problem, and someone could theoretically use
it for something more intrusive. It's a policy and procedure
I’m not sure that Wi-Fi data will be the best for doing actual contact tracing.
Maybe if you’ve got the full blown Meridian location tracking or something
similar that can tie in Bluetooth-based beacons, but it seems to me that the
granularity of Wi-Fi only data wouldn’t quite be up to what
One challenging aspect of a Bluetooth-based approach is that the app must be
open and in the foreground of the device (which must remain unlocked). That
seems to be a common limitation with most other Bluetooth-based approaches
(including Meridian), although it seems like the UK’s “NHS
I found this podcast about efforts by U of W and Microsoft to be
insightful.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/05/podcast-232-contact-tracing-privacy-surveillance-decentralized/
https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/08/podcast-233-contact-tracing-civil-liberties-sham-kakade/
John Rodkey
Director
