The Security and Privacy of Contact Tracing
16 Minutes News by a16z - A podcast by Andreessen Horowitz
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with joeldelagarza @smc90 Contact tracing is a key strategy for preventing further spread of a disease like COVID-19, but approaches and frameworks vary in how, who, and where -- especially on privacy and security. Yet technology is not the biggest part of this discussion; it’s also about rights, cultures, and values... and the bigger questions around what happens when people are "transformed into cellphone signals".