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Decentralization: Personal protection while combating COVID-19 Conservation
The State authorities quickly implemented various urgent programs to curb the spread of COVID-19 in order to keep citizens safe. The movement of contaminated people is transmitted in South Korea by public text.
The government in Israel has passed a right to track smartphones with suspected infection. In the USA, the government holds negotiations with Google and Twitter on the location of information, while in the UK, technology giant Palantir merges technology to notify the national health service. It is clearer than ever that governments can use technology for monitoring and enforcing restrictions.
As these steps continue to take place, people become aware of some of the implications of past privacy decisions and of the relative lack of control over their personal data .. As we saw from the United States in 2005, what has been introduced under the Patriot Act in 2001 is permanent and the emergency steps that shield us even in crisis time will remain permanent.
We saw officials continuously struggle between public health and personal data security, whether they were unintentional, deliberate, accidentally, justified or not. Will it really need to be?
Personal and better privacy are not mutually exclusive
Governments and corporations tend to be working on the premise that personal and privacy data must be compromised for the greater good. This deal is a misleading dichotomy. The tale reveals that neither will we compromise.
Most of the technology we use is currently centralized. This ensures all related data is stored on the servers of the company when we use an application. These information may include personal information from users including social security numbers, birth dates, addresses etc. This mix of personal information jeopardizes users and empowers those keeping the data to make decision.
As the user interface and interface expand, more individuals in the company can access them — and the value they increase. Increased data access and processing raises the chances of data leakage, instability and even malicious hacking.
In turn, decentralized technology will allow governments and organisations, while maintaining the privacy of individuals, to solve problems on a scale. The more widespread decentralized community of advocates claims that privacy rights are essential to society.
Decentralized software to support the governments
Although technology solutions to combat the coronavirus and to meet data protection requirements have been a challenge for most Governments, the decentralized movement community has managed to take over.
In contrast to centralized infrastructure, decentralized infrastructure does not collect data from the user on one central server. Instead, data is stored on user devices or private clouds and encrypted so that the user can unlock it with only the private key. Users own their data and the servers of remote data centers do not concentrate personal data.
Available identity to maintain confidentiality
A group of developers build up a technology called disposable identities in order to address these problems, so that people can be tracked without disclosing their genuine identity or personal data. They hope that governments will be allowed to curb COVID-19 and every other pandemic.
The project team defines disposable identities as "temporary identities based on characteristics which grant privacy to end users."
Usable identities can be used to track citizens' health status. People will each have a smartphone app with a health status color code. If a person visits the doctor, he or she may update his or her state of health.
This mobile application creates a user-friendly identity that protects the privacy of the citizen during this time.
Mobile devices, in effect, submit government reports to provide the pandemic with an summary and perspective to make decisions without violating the privacy of people.
There are many other problems while tracking infected citizens. One is the shortage of medical services.
Data protection while hospital visits are reduced
Under the leadership of a former ConsenSys developer, over 30 scientists and technicians have come together recently to establish a mobile application open source to enable users to track their coronavirus symptoms via a blockchain base, which maintains ownership of the ingoing data.
Symptoms tracking has been extremely important for physicians as patients are traveled through a system, and the goal of decentralized projects such as this is not to allow third parties to collect information that compromise.
Symptom trackers based on Blockchain could also provide education and information in order to reduce the number of unnecessary hospital visits further.
Use after the coronavirus era, symptom tracking applications that ultimately serve as a trustworthy interface between the public and the health system .. In principle, health agencies should exchange informational materials with the general public and individuals should select details they exchange with other parties.
In the meantime, this technology could be very useful in allowing patients to use bureaucratic patient registration and bureaucracy throughout the health sector.
There are new organizations that concentrate on privacy and also spin up projects. NBC only had a variety of different teams.
This is a list of the most important information we know that at least attempts to address the private environment of a person while fighting the virus: COVID Watch, NextTrace, GreenPass, CoronaTracker, Corona Tracker, COVID Safe Paths, MiPasa, Tech Against Corona, Verily and the Pinterest engineers, DP3 T, TraceTogether, and HaMagen engineers.
Durable change
These are just two examples how decentralized applications can give governments and organisations, without having to risk citizens' privacy, data or identities, the instruments they need to serve and safeguard society at large.
Sadly, several government departments have been jeopardizing citizens' data for public safety since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We recognize that emergency steps are necessary in times of crisis, but the technology needed to prevent such decisions is already there while successfully serving people.
Much is going to change following the coronavirus; we hope that a shift to decentralized technology will be a positive development.
