I think you’ve identified the biggest alarm bell: “People might feel they’re selling their privacy for a lottery ticket”
Regardless of whether or not people felt like they were selling their personal data, they would be. Government probably needs to think very carefully about buying health and geolocation data from its citizens; it’s a weird dynamic.
It could be done in a privacy preserving way so people wouldn’t be selling their personal data:
““We collect no location data, no movement profiles, no contact information and no identifiable features of the end devices.”
The newspaper reports PEPP-PT’s approach means apps aligning to this standard would generate only temporary IDs — to avoid individuals being identified. Two or more smartphones running an app that uses the tech and has Bluetooth enabled when they come into proximity would exchange their respective IDs — saving them locally on the device in an encrypted form, according to the report.
Der Spiegel writes that should a user of the app subsequently be diagnosed with coronavirus their doctor would be able to ask them to transfer the contact list to a central server. The doctor would then be able to use the system to warn affected IDs they have had contact with a person who has since been diagnosed with the virus — meaning those at risk individuals could be proactively tested and/or self-isolate.”
I think you’ve identified the biggest alarm bell: “People might feel they’re selling their privacy for a lottery ticket”
Regardless of whether or not people felt like they were selling their personal data, they would be. Government probably needs to think very carefully about buying health and geolocation data from its citizens; it’s a weird dynamic.
It could be done in a privacy preserving way so people wouldn’t be selling their personal data:
““We collect no location data, no movement profiles, no contact information and no identifiable features of the end devices.”
The newspaper reports PEPP-PT’s approach means apps aligning to this standard would generate only temporary IDs — to avoid individuals being identified. Two or more smartphones running an app that uses the tech and has Bluetooth enabled when they come into proximity would exchange their respective IDs — saving them locally on the device in an encrypted form, according to the report.
Der Spiegel writes that should a user of the app subsequently be diagnosed with coronavirus their doctor would be able to ask them to transfer the contact list to a central server. The doctor would then be able to use the system to warn affected IDs they have had contact with a person who has since been diagnosed with the virus — meaning those at risk individuals could be proactively tested and/or self-isolate.”
From: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/01/an-eu-coalition-of-techies-is-backing-a-privacy-preserving-standard-for-covid-19-contacts-tracing/