Protect Your Score: Contact Tracing With Differential Privacy Guarantees

arXiv:2312.11581v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The pandemic in 2020 and 2021 had enormous economic and societal consequences, and studies show that contact tracing algorithms can be key in the early containment of the virus. While large strides have been made towards more effective contact tracing algorithms, we argue that privacy concerns currently hold deployment back. The essence of a contact tracing algorithm constitutes the communication of a risk score. Yet, it is precisely the communication and release of this score …

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