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Individual Data Rights for Digital Contact Tracing and Alerting - dcta-datarights.com

This is the website for DCTA-datarights.com. A framework for developers, funders, etc to judge the individual data rights of a digital contact tracing solution.

Why are the rights necessary?

Epidemiologists identify DCTA apps as a tool that can help get people treated earlier, and reopen society. For digital contact tracing to be effective, it must have high adoption. However, large scale centralized digital contact tracing can be used for unwanted surveillance. Location-tracking apps have exposed major concerns that these tech solutions will permanently erode the privacy of a large number of the world’s population.

It is now apparent that measures needed to control the damage from COVID-19 will be ongoing and long-term. It is crucially important that the tech solutions rapidly built during this period comply with data privacy regulations and do not set the public up for future exploitation. The solution to these problems is requiring that developers build apps on a foundation of privacy-preservation and interoperability. The Rights are necessary to achieve this end.

Contributing

Feel free to do a pull request and fix typos, etc

Adding your organization as a signer/member

Please edit the members.yaml file.

Add your logo (preferrably SVG) to the static/images/members/ dir.

Editing the data rights and fixing typos

You can edit the _index.md file and that will edit the main content of the site.

License

The site and code is licensed under the MIT License

The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Questions / Contact

you can email questions@dcta-datarights.com to reach the team.