Stephen Farrell and myself have some internal TCD funding for our work on contact tracing apps and have setup a small project website to try to start gathering results together in one place.
- Coronavirus Contact Tracing App Privacy: What
Data Is Shared By The Singapore OpenTrace App? (28th April 2020)
Update 27th June 2020: Accepted for SecureComm 2020.
See also: Podcast and Short Talk at IEEE Security & Privacy Conference, May 2020 - Coronavirus Contact Tracing: Evaluating The Potential Of Using Bluetooth Received Signal Strength For Proximity Detection (6th May 2020)
Update 18th Aug 2020: Accepted for ACM Computer Communications Review.
Measurement data from this report. See also news reports in: Science, New Scientist - Tech report: A Coronavirus Contact Tracing App Replay Attack with Estimated Amplification Factors (19th May 2020)
- Tech report: Measurement-Based Evaluation Of Google/Apple Exposure Notification API For Proximity Detection In A Commuter Bus (15th June 2020)
Update: Accepted for PLOS One.
Measurement data from this report. See also news reports in: BBC News, Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Telegraph. - GAEN Due Diligence: Verifying The Google/Apple Covid Exposure Notification API (16th June 2020)
Update 23rd August 2020: Accepted for Corona Defcon21 Workshop, part of NDSS 2021 - We were invited to make a submission to the Oireachtas (the Irish parliament) committee that is considering Ireland's response to the pandemic. Our submission is here (16 June 2020).
- Measurement-Based Evaluation Of Google/Apple Exposure Notification API For Proximity Detection In A Light-Rail Tram (26th June 2020)
Update 16th Sept 2020: Accepted for publication in PLOS ONE
Measurement data from this report. See also some German news coverage: Heise, Deutsches Arzteblatt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Bild. And a more recent New York Times retrospective on the efficacy of COVID apps. - Countries using the Google/Apple API publish the TEKs of the handsets of infected people. We've started to monitor these to track trend, see here. (28th June 2020)
- We've made available the GAEN Logger app that we used for testing/verification of Google/Apple API operation, although it also highlights how people running apps based on the Google/Apple API need to be aware of how that might affect their privacy.
- I was invited to take part in an interesting online panel discussion on contact tracing apps organised by the German National Academy of Science, video of proceedings (15th July 2020)
- Contact Tracing App Privacy: What Data Is Shared By Europe's GAEN Contact Tracing Apps (18th July 2020)
Update 7th Dec 2020: Accepted for publication in Proc IEEE INFOCOM 2021.
Short presentation at INFOCOM 2021
Some news coverage: Wall St Journal, Bloomberg, Heise, ZDF, Irish Independent, thejournal.ie, Irish Times, Hill Times Canada, Saldo.ch - Tech report:Contact Tracing App Privacy: What Data Is Shared By Non-GAEN Contact Tracing Apps (11th Jan 2021)
Update 14th May 2020: Accepted for publication in Mobile Networks and Applications.