Topic: New York Assembly APA Task Force Discussing COVID-19 Contact Tracing, Antibody T (Read 191 times)
May 05, 2020, 11:45:14 AM
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April 27, 2020, 04:51:40 PM
Verus And The Fight Against COVID-19
Earlier this week Mike Toutonghi, Microsoft’s former VP for the eHome division and Chief Architect of .Net, participated in a live town hall meeting held by the Asian Pacific American Task Force.
The Task Force is building a technological solution for gathering and storing data related to COVID-19 infections in a privacy-preserving manner. The solution involves storing attestations on the Verus chain in such a way that a user can determine when, to whom, and how much of the data they share.
READ MORE at:
https://thedailychain.com/verus-and-the-fight-against-covid-19/
LINK TO PDF FROM https://valu.earth/
https://valu.earth/img/SkyviewPilot.pdf
Earlier this week Mike Toutonghi, Microsoft’s former VP for the eHome division and Chief Architect of .Net, participated in a live town hall meeting held by the Asian Pacific American Task Force.
The Task Force is building a technological solution for gathering and storing data related to COVID-19 infections in a privacy-preserving manner. The solution involves storing attestations on the Verus chain in such a way that a user can determine when, to whom, and how much of the data they share.
READ MORE at:
https://thedailychain.com/verus-and-the-fight-against-covid-19/
LINK TO PDF FROM https://valu.earth/
https://valu.earth/img/SkyviewPilot.pdf
April 23, 2020, 02:37:19 PM
Wow. That is some really nice news for VRSC. Prepare for a mega pump on that one.
April 23, 2020, 01:36:42 PM
More info:
https://www.queenscountypolitics.com/2020/04/23/the-new-normal-digital-testing-and-contact-tracing-versus-privacy-issues/
The New Normal: Digital Testing and Contact Tracing Versus Privacy Issues
Petra Kelly-Voicu by Petra Kelly-Voicu April 23, 2020 in Education
Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Whitestone, Flushing, College Point, Murray Hill) organized a virtual meeting yesterday invited experts from around the world to discuss the challenges in containing the spread of COVID-19 while protecting the public’s privacy.
Assemblymember Ron Kim
“We are as strong as the weakest link. And there are so many people that are unemployed, undocumented, uninsured. How do we get these people to trust us and to get tested?”
The answer to this may be mobile testing units. On Wednesday morning, Kim – along with colleagues U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, State Sen. John Liu and City Councilmember Peter Koo – launched Flushing’s first mobile testing unit, mimicking similar efforts in that have been employed in South Korea.
This would bring COVID-19 testing to people who live in “bottleneck communities”, who may otherwise have limited access to testing centers or who are afraid to go to hospitals due to I.C.E. concerns.
After individuals have been tested positive for the virus, they could share this information anonymously with anyone that has come in contact with them, through digital contact tracing technology.
Mike Toutonghi, a former Microsoft executive currently working on digital contact tracing technology, says that tech giants Google and Apple want to implement the software in all cell phones to help health officials track the spread of the virus.
To address the issue of privacy, Toutonghi turns to the Verus protocol he is developing. “This method protects your privacy and lets people know that they interacted with someone that tested positive, but does not reveal who it was or where the interaction took place,” says Toutonghi.
“We will allow people to publish a diagnosis key that, without showing your private information, will inform everyone using Apple-Google protocol that they interacted with someone who tested positive.” When people know they interacted with an infected person, they can get tested and quarantined, thereby minimizing the risk of spreading the virus to others.
Prof Robert Hockett, Edward Cornell Professor of Law, says effective tracking of the virus would allow cities to reopen their economies, pointing out that the culprit behind the current recession is a lack of information about who is infected.
“We know that only a small percentage of people are infected, and only a small percentage of people will be severely impacted, but we dump it all because we don’t know who those infected individuals are. So we grind everything to a halt because of lack of information.”
Once the virus’ spread can be traced person-to-person, says Prof. Hockett, healthy individuals would be able to return to work, while only those individuals that are infected or came in contact with an infected person are quarantined. This would slowly allow officials to reopen the economy without putting the public health at stake. The method could also be adapted to help cities brace with future pandemics without shutting down the economy.
As researchers work on other issues regarding COVID-19 testing – including addressing false positives and supply-chain issues – and developing effective COVID-19 treatment methods, widespread testing in combination with digital contact tracing could help society turn back to normal without risking the public health or the economy.
“It doesn’t have to be a tradeoff,” says Prof. Hockett.
https://www.queenscountypolitics.com/2020/04/23/the-new-normal-digital-testing-and-contact-tracing-versus-privacy-issues/
The New Normal: Digital Testing and Contact Tracing Versus Privacy Issues
Petra Kelly-Voicu by Petra Kelly-Voicu April 23, 2020 in Education
Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Whitestone, Flushing, College Point, Murray Hill) organized a virtual meeting yesterday invited experts from around the world to discuss the challenges in containing the spread of COVID-19 while protecting the public’s privacy.
Assemblymember Ron Kim
“We are as strong as the weakest link. And there are so many people that are unemployed, undocumented, uninsured. How do we get these people to trust us and to get tested?”
The answer to this may be mobile testing units. On Wednesday morning, Kim – along with colleagues U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, State Sen. John Liu and City Councilmember Peter Koo – launched Flushing’s first mobile testing unit, mimicking similar efforts in that have been employed in South Korea.
This would bring COVID-19 testing to people who live in “bottleneck communities”, who may otherwise have limited access to testing centers or who are afraid to go to hospitals due to I.C.E. concerns.
After individuals have been tested positive for the virus, they could share this information anonymously with anyone that has come in contact with them, through digital contact tracing technology.
Mike Toutonghi, a former Microsoft executive currently working on digital contact tracing technology, says that tech giants Google and Apple want to implement the software in all cell phones to help health officials track the spread of the virus.
To address the issue of privacy, Toutonghi turns to the Verus protocol he is developing. “This method protects your privacy and lets people know that they interacted with someone that tested positive, but does not reveal who it was or where the interaction took place,” says Toutonghi.
“We will allow people to publish a diagnosis key that, without showing your private information, will inform everyone using Apple-Google protocol that they interacted with someone who tested positive.” When people know they interacted with an infected person, they can get tested and quarantined, thereby minimizing the risk of spreading the virus to others.
Prof Robert Hockett, Edward Cornell Professor of Law, says effective tracking of the virus would allow cities to reopen their economies, pointing out that the culprit behind the current recession is a lack of information about who is infected.
“We know that only a small percentage of people are infected, and only a small percentage of people will be severely impacted, but we dump it all because we don’t know who those infected individuals are. So we grind everything to a halt because of lack of information.”
Once the virus’ spread can be traced person-to-person, says Prof. Hockett, healthy individuals would be able to return to work, while only those individuals that are infected or came in contact with an infected person are quarantined. This would slowly allow officials to reopen the economy without putting the public health at stake. The method could also be adapted to help cities brace with future pandemics without shutting down the economy.
As researchers work on other issues regarding COVID-19 testing – including addressing false positives and supply-chain issues – and developing effective COVID-19 treatment methods, widespread testing in combination with digital contact tracing could help society turn back to normal without risking the public health or the economy.
“It doesn’t have to be a tradeoff,” says Prof. Hockett.
April 23, 2020, 01:55:29 AM
It's a good initiative. I hope it will be sustainable and deliver to the full capacity it's expected.
April 23, 2020, 12:28:13 AM
The open-source project is also useful as a perfect way to overcome the covid-19 by using some color coding procedure to the authorized person which control by the authority with a combination of Digital ID and Verus IDs as digital use for receiving and sending funds.
April 22, 2020, 10:07:30 PM
New York State Assembly Asian Pacific American Task Force
Assemblyman Ron Kim with co-host Nick Lyons invite you to a town hall meeting to discuss antibody testing, attestations & civil liberties.
Speakers: Dr. Bollinger, Dr. Hockett, Dr. Fuerst, Subramaniam, Toutonghi, and Clippinger
Verus project ( https://veruscoin.io/ ) is 100% open source and is working with them and others to help with contact tracing and diagnose attestations with out compromising our privacy.
town hall meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo4D3VOELeI&t=11s
or
https://lbry.tv/@NOT_FINANCIAL_ADVICE:4/NY-Asian-Pacific-American-Task-Force,-hold-town-hall.-Join-Assemblyman-Ron-Kim-with-co-host-Nick-Lyons.:b OLD LINK: https://youtu.be/xMnNi8LBJn0?t=238
Read more at:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/covid-19-app-without-compromise-bart-van-maarseveen
More info: Verus Discord
https://discord.gg/VRKMP2S
Assemblyman Ron Kim with co-host Nick Lyons invite you to a town hall meeting to discuss antibody testing, attestations & civil liberties.
Speakers: Dr. Bollinger, Dr. Hockett, Dr. Fuerst, Subramaniam, Toutonghi, and Clippinger
Verus project ( https://veruscoin.io/ ) is 100% open source and is working with them and others to help with contact tracing and diagnose attestations with out compromising our privacy.
town hall meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo4D3VOELeI&t=11s
or
https://lbry.tv/@NOT_FINANCIAL_ADVICE:4/NY-Asian-Pacific-American-Task-Force,-hold-town-hall.-Join-Assemblyman-Ron-Kim-with-co-host-Nick-Lyons.:b OLD LINK: https://youtu.be/xMnNi8LBJn0?t=238
Read more at:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/covid-19-app-without-compromise-bart-van-maarseveen
More info: Verus Discord
https://discord.gg/VRKMP2S
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