COVID-19 Contact Tracing

Amazon Scholars Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth Discuss the Ethics of Machine Learning

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Author: Stephen Zorio; Publisher: Amazon: Science; Publication Year: 2020. In the following article, panelists discuss the tradeoff between accuracy and privacy when dealing with sensitive situations and machine learning (ML) models. They provide a relevant example with the pandemic outbreak, where accurate contact tracing can be more important than respecting user privacy and this highlights two problems: bias and…

Protecting Lives & Liberty: How Contact Tracing Apps Can Foil Both COVID-19 and Big Brother

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Author: Nicky Case; Publisher: ncase.me; Publication Year: N/A. The following resource considers how should we balance leveraging sensitive data to combat important social issues (e.g., COVID-19 contact tracing) while ensuring data privacy? One answer is the DP-3T protocol used to automatically trace contact between individuals using location-based data from mobile devices. However, even with a…