23 novembro 2020
Hackers 'try to steal Covid vaccine secrets in intellectual property war'
09 novembro 2020
Immunity Certificates: If We Must Have Them, We Must Do It Right
Immunity Certificates: If We Must Have Them, We Must Do It Right: This paper outlines key technical and governance considerations necessary for a robust, privacy-protecting credentialing system, and discusses the risks of such programs. The paper also endeavors to sketch out the necessary rate of adoption and the likely ecosystem of partners required for successful implementation of immunity certificates. Finally, it offers a roadmap and call to action for policymakers (with a focus on North America and Europe) and to the technology community to align on standards to ensure we do not end up with fragmented implementations that fall short of meeting achievable, and essential, goals.
Start-ups are racing to develop Covid-19 ‘immunity passports’ — but experts warn they’re unethical:
- Immunity passports would link your identity to a coronavirus test result so you can share your immune status with employers and other third parties.
- Several tech firms, including Onfido, are racing to develop tech for immunity passports to help with the reopening of economies.
- But scientists say digital immunity passports raise a number of issues, from how immunity is determined to the protection of users’ privacy.
02 novembro 2020
Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set
22 outubro 2020
Palantir to Help U.S. Track Covid-19 Vaccines
Palantir has been developing software that federal health officials would use to manage the various vaccine data and identify any issues that could prevent Americans from getting the shots, according to the health officials and materials reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The system, Tiberius, marks an attempt to use cutting-edge data science to help the federal government manage the work of protecting Americans against Covid-19.
08 outubro 2020
COVID-related domain name checks
25 setembro 2020
Digital Tools for COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Identifying and Mitigating the Equity, Privacy, and Civil Liberties Concerns
Digital Tools for COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Identifying and Mitigating the Equity, Privacy, and Civil Liberties Concerns: This paper outlines the equity, privacy, and civil liberties risks posed by digital tools as well as safeguards that policymakers can adopt to mitigate these concerns. Further, the paper recommends that policymakers take affirmative steps to address vulnerable populations that are unlikely to be reached by digital apps, partner with developers and community organizations, promote public education campaigns when deploying digital tools, take steps to close the digital divide, and pass comprehensive privacy legislation with effective enforcement mechanisms.
17 setembro 2020
Gauss and Cellux announce first full at-home rapid coronavirus test
16 setembro 2020
These 15 innovations are helping us fight COVID-19
13 agosto 2020
To make sense of coronavirus, we need to embrace doubt
have their limitations. From the very start, mistakes were made by both
laymen and experts. Let me mention three emblematic examples.
It was immediately clear that the actual coronavirus cases were much
higher than those reported in official figures, and circulated, often
uncritically, on social media. Since in most countries not everyone was
getting tested, the figures could at best gauge the lower bound of the
actual numbers.
Stanford researchers to estimate the prevalence of the virus in Santa
Clara County, California, concluded that Covid-19 was much more
widespread than initially believed. Researchers had used Facebook ads to
recruit test subjects, which is a convenient method, but also one that
distorts the numbers, as people who feel sick are likely to self-select
into such a study in order to get tested.
It is tempting to gaze at the figures and come up with some facile
explanation for the differences. Some have claimed masks are the
solution, others that we should all have robust contact-tracing like
South Korea or a laissez-faire approach like Sweden. But there is no
silver-bullet solution. Countries have different testing strategies,
different demographics, different healthcare systems. And some countries
simply had more luck, as the pandemic knocked on their door later and
gave them more time to prepare. How countries fared probably depends on a
complex interaction of many factors, which will take years to
disentangle.
11 agosto 2020
Responsável pelo tratamento dos dados e intervenção do médico no STAYAWAY COVID
Deste modo, foi criado o sistema STAYAWAY COVID, desenvolvido pelo Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas de Computadores, Ciência e Tecnologia (INESC TEC), em parceria com o Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto e as empresas Keyruptive e Ubirider, no âmbito da Iniciativa Nacional em Competências Digitais e.2030.
Por outro lado, é ainda atribuída à Direção-Geral da Saúde a responsabilidade pelo tratamento de dados do referido sistema, que contrata à SPMS - Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde, E. P. E., os serviços e meios técnicos necessários ao seu adequado funcionamento.
A Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados, na pronúncia que efetuou sobre a avaliação de impacto sobre a proteção de dados em relação ao sistema STAYAWAY COVID, recomendou que fosse dado enquadramento legal a alguns dos aspetos respeitantes ao seu funcionamento.
10 agosto 2020
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
06 agosto 2020
Supercomputer study of mobility in Spain at the peak of COVID-19 using Facebook and Google data
The data were collected between March 1 and June 27, from the phones of volunteers who had agreed to use tracking apps.
03 agosto 2020
What’s on the agenda for post-pandemic meetings?
COVID-19 is unlikely to mean the end of physical conferences entirely. Yet many hope, or think, that the global health crisis will change meetings forever.
26 julho 2020
Data Sharing and Open Source Software Help Combat Covid-19
24 julho 2020
Cybersecurity tactics for the coronavirus pandemic
17 julho 2020
Robots working to disinfect your office
14 julho 2020
Broadband Policy After COVID-19
Robots, computer programs and a vaccine
Tracing. Testing. Tweaking. | China
13 julho 2020
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