----- Forwarded message from ACM MemberNet Europe <membernet@acm.org> ----- ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee Issues Statement on Contact Tracing 7 May 2020 ACM's Europe Technology Policy Committee (https://europe.acm.org/europe-tpc) has issued detailed principles and practices for the development and deployment of contact tracing technologies intended to track and arrest the spread of COVID-19. Europe TPC's statement calls on governments that adopt such systems to choose "only those which, by technical and legal design: respect and protect the rights of all individuals; safeguard personal data and privacy to the highest degree technically possible; and are subject to scrutiny by the scientific community and civil society before, during and after deployment." The Committee's principles and practices address five critical areas of policy: technical architecture, development transparency, expert oversight, legal safeguards, and public engagement. Key recommendations include making contact tracing applications: * voluntary for members of the public to use (individual "opt-in"); * internationally interoperable; * subject to oversight by multidisciplinary committees of experts; * strictly limited in their use and data collection by clear legal safeguards; and * available for formal comment by the public and civil society. Read the full statement and essential contact tracing principles and practices at (https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/public-policy/europe-tpc-contact...). Read the statement in Italian at (https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/public-policy/europe-tpc-contact...) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Stefano Zacchiroli . zack@upsilon.cc . upsilon.cc/zack . . o . . . o . o Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader & OSI Board Director . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »