Contact Tracing: Ensuring Privacy and Security

Faced with the biggest virus outbreak in a century, world governments at start of 2020 took unprecedented measures to protect their healthcare systems from being overwhelmed light COVID-19 pandemic. International travel was halted and lockdowns were imposed. Many nations adopted stop transmission virus, such as imposing wearing face masks, social distancing, limits on gatherings. Technology quickly developed for mobile phones, allowing track people’s movements concerning locations (both people places). These are called contact tracing applications. Contact applications raise serious privacy security concerns. Within Europe, two evolved: centralised system, which calculates risk central server, decentralised users’ handset. This study examined both threat perspective design framework that enables Such is helpful App developers. The found even though comply General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Europe’s legislation, system suffers severe risks against threats identified. Experiments, research, reviews tested various settings but it performs better still inherent shortcomings. User tracking re-identification possible, especially when users report themselves infected. Based these data, identified validated security. also current implementations using Google/Apple API do not framework.