Block Lattice Architecture Or Blockchain? DLT or DAG? Europeans Rally on GDPR-Compliant, Open Source, Cross-Border Framework for Phone Application Development

Block Lattice Architecture Or Blockchain? DLT or DAG? Europeans Rally on GDPR-Compliant, Open Source, Cross-Border Framework for Phone Application Development

A team of close to 130 people from 17 institutes, organisations and companies in Europe is developing a technology that is intended as an alternative to privacy-invading tracking technologies used in some
countries in Asia to combat the COVID-19. Top experts from multiple
European nations are working on an open-source Pan-European
Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing initiative (PEPP-PT) to
provide a complete framework and reference implementation to track and
stop the transmission of COVID-19 rapidly and effectively by informing
potentially exposed people they are carriers and still adhere to the
EU’s heavy privacy regulations.

Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity TracingThe core technology will detect users close enough to infect each other by analysing Bluetooth signals between mobile phones.

“Given these divergences, the European Data Protection Supervisor calls for a pan-European model COVID-19 mobile application, coordinated at EU level,” stated the head of the EU privacy watchdog, Wojciech Wiewiorowski. “Ideally, coordination with the World Health Organisation should also take place, to ensure data protection by design globally from the start,” he said to Reuters in a statement.

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