I wish anyone could fund and contribute to the development of things like this.
Am abit suspicious of projects that are not built from start to finish by the people. This is why I tend to trust well decentralized project built in Crypto space transparently and without unnecessary restrictions.
Topic: A COVID-19 Blockchan app without compromise - page 2. (Read 351 times)
As governments are gearing up to have COVID-19 apps ready for contact tracing and diagnose attestations we, the public, are afraid these apps will end up compromising our privacy.
Privacy
In the blockchain communities I'm active this is a very hot topic. We should not just sit still and wait for the usual suspects to force intrusive apps on us. What we can do is carefully craft the alternatives which are designed for privacy and self sovereignty.
Open Source
The international team of The Verus project resides partly in The Netherlands and decided to extend the blockchain driven self sovereign digital ID VerusID with COVID-19 specific functions. To be clear, the whole Verus project is 100% open source.
Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
As I became enthusiastic about this effort I helped the project to apply to the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport for the what they call "market consultation".
So good news! There is at least one 100% open source app in their market consultation.
Read more at:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/covid-19-app-without-compromise-bart-van-maarseveen
Privacy
In the blockchain communities I'm active this is a very hot topic. We should not just sit still and wait for the usual suspects to force intrusive apps on us. What we can do is carefully craft the alternatives which are designed for privacy and self sovereignty.
Open Source
The international team of The Verus project resides partly in The Netherlands and decided to extend the blockchain driven self sovereign digital ID VerusID with COVID-19 specific functions. To be clear, the whole Verus project is 100% open source.
Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
As I became enthusiastic about this effort I helped the project to apply to the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport for the what they call "market consultation".
So good news! There is at least one 100% open source app in their market consultation.
Read more at:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/covid-19-app-without-compromise-bart-van-maarseveen
In my country the government has also launched an app that is able to track you completely. It is a privacy. Issue no doubt about it but, you need this app for the time being to keep you safe whenever you are going outside.
Later on you can discontinue this app sune things have become normal.
I use an android phone and most phone come with dual numbers, for registering you can use the number which is not your primary one and later on you can discard it if you still think they can track you using the number.
I don't know, every time that I heard about Covid-19 crypto related projects, it sounds like a scam to me because of the previous projects that we have seen who turn out to be scam after all.
As you say, I'm also having the same thought. There's no need to integrate in crypto with these covid-19 projects. They are already useful as they are aiming to trace back people that a victim conversed with. I don't feel any sense of urgency for these projects anymore. They have to let this one depend to the resource people that's more knowledgeable how to handle the situation.
Why everything must relate to blockchain? The purpose of this can be done even by database and not even needed crypto for that matter.
It seems people are just really wanted to create more business venture and they just putting up the issue on covid19 to make a proposed project where in the end there is a hidden agenda of profiting to people that will like the idea.
We can already seen some tracking site for each province, region, city and country. Even whole statistic can be noted on WHO website and many related news update. No need for private sector to involve with this. Government can do these things and not needed solicitation from firms who has agenda.
It seems people are just really wanted to create more business venture and they just putting up the issue on covid19 to make a proposed project where in the end there is a hidden agenda of profiting to people that will like the idea.
We can already seen some tracking site for each province, region, city and country. Even whole statistic can be noted on WHO website and many related news update. No need for private sector to involve with this. Government can do these things and not needed solicitation from firms who has agenda.
I don't know, every time that I heard about Covid-19 crypto related projects, it sounds like a scam to me because of the previous projects that we have seen who turn out to be scam after all.
This is what I'm trying to drive out, do we really need blockchain app at this point?
Every government and no-governmental organizations have their own tracking, and this might compromise security and privacy as well. What we need is vaccine to help the spread of virus and not just Covid-19 theme apps, just saying.
This sounds like a gimmick for me. Whatever how many apps that will be created (plan) by them for covid or to fight covid and what we need is a vaccine. So many countries have already announced to lockdown and this enough to prevent the mobility from their civilians and the tracing app will not be used again.
This is what I'm trying to drive out, do we really need blockchain app at this point?
Every government and no-governmental organizations have their own tracking, and this might compromise security and privacy as well. What we need is vaccine to help the spread of virus and not just Covid-19 theme apps, just saying.
This doesn't make sense, how will a app serve as a cure to covid 19? Sounds like an hoax, I don't have interest in this type of claim because it's stupid to begin with, what we need is real cure or vaccine to get rid of this harmful, life taking virus
This sounds like a gimmick for me. Whatever how many apps that will be created (plan) by them for covid or to fight covid and what we need is a vaccine. So many countries have already announced to lockdown and this enough to prevent the mobility from their civilians and the tracing app will not be used again.
As governments are gearing up to have COVID-19 apps ready for contact tracing and diagnose attestations we, the public, are afraid these apps will end up compromising our privacy.
Privacy
In the blockchain communities I'm active this is a very hot topic. We should not just sit still and wait for the usual suspects to force intrusive apps on us. What we can do is carefully craft the alternatives which are designed for privacy and self sovereignty.
Open Source
The international team of The Verus project resides partly in The Netherlands and decided to extend the blockchain driven self sovereign digital ID VerusID with COVID-19 specific functions. To be clear, the whole Verus project is 100% open source.
Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
As I became enthusiastic about this effort I helped the project to apply to the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport for the what they call "market consultation".
So good news! There is at least one 100% open source app in their market consultation.
Read more at:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/covid-19-app-without-compromise-bart-van-maarseveen
Privacy
In the blockchain communities I'm active this is a very hot topic. We should not just sit still and wait for the usual suspects to force intrusive apps on us. What we can do is carefully craft the alternatives which are designed for privacy and self sovereignty.
Open Source
The international team of The Verus project resides partly in The Netherlands and decided to extend the blockchain driven self sovereign digital ID VerusID with COVID-19 specific functions. To be clear, the whole Verus project is 100% open source.
Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
As I became enthusiastic about this effort I helped the project to apply to the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport for the what they call "market consultation".
So good news! There is at least one 100% open source app in their market consultation.
Read more at:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/covid-19-app-without-compromise-bart-van-maarseveen
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