Hi all, The French state is making a glosing about the "privacy-preserving", "anonymous" contact tracing app they are developing with Inria (national informatics research agency). You can check about the protocol proposal, ROBERT, here: https://github.com/ROBERT-proximity-tracing/documents (in English!)
As you would expect, the proposal is not privacy-preserving unless you believe the State would never ever misbehave, e.g. link IP address to identity with the help of ISPs etc. There is some relevant criticism here: https://github.com/ROBERT-proximity-tracing/documents/issues/6 I'd like to propose a really private "contact tracing" counter-proposal, which would use Tor's onion services for sender-receiver anonymity. Not that I am a proponent of the idea, but we need to come up with alternatives in the debate. My question is: /would the Tor community agree on having StopCovid's traffic go through its net?/ In my proposal, I would only broadcast a message from a declared COVID-positive person to all its recent contacts; the proximity sensing would remain Bluetooth. Still, deployed at the scale of a country, it's a lot of traffic. Thank you for your time, I will keep you posted, Adrien
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