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Ep 3: Privacy-preserving Covid Tracing and the Hardware-Software Stack with Dr. James Larus, EPFL

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Classic Contact Tracing

i think maybe it might be instructive to talk a little bit about what these contact tracing proticles are doing. And why they need access to the blue tooth taccause i'm not sure that the audience to this podcast necessarily knows that kind of stuff off the top of their head. The idea with digital contact tracing is that everybody has a phone, so why don't we use the phone to record who you are near by? It uses random identifiers o it keeps all the information about who you were in contact with on your phone. When somebody is diagnosed with covet, they unvelote their set of identifiers for the past couple of days on to aserver, which broadcast to everybody

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