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The Linux Foundation, which supports open source innovation in blockchain technology, launched the Linux Foundation’s Public Health Initiative (LFPHI) last July. The goal of LFPHI is to advertise the use of open source through public fitness authorities, which can be tested through anyone, to combat not only COVID-19, but also long-term pandemics.
The seven main LFPHI members come with Tencent, Cisco, and IBM. The initiative supports two draft exposure reporting, COVID Shield and COVID Green, with the aim of interoperability between projects in other jurisdictions.
Based on Google and Apple’s Bluetooth notification systems, those apps alert others when they have been in close contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19. These open source programs are built with the Apple and Google protocol for notifications, but the apps themselves are transparent and therefore more reliable than closed apps, where there is no preview of the code that drives them.
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Dan Kohn, CEO of the new initiative, sees open source generation as a privacy-friendly exposure notification app, but not just enough.
“It’s pretty imaginable to create an open source app that’s terrible for privacy,” Kohn said. “But what open source does is it prevents you from pretending to respect privacy, because any expert can check it out.”
In other words, the formula can only be privacy friendly, but also privacy friendly.
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Apple and Google have renamed their Bluetooth protocols as “exposure notifications” after first calling them “touch tracking”. Digital equipment is designed to facilitate the procedure of human contact tracers, not to fully update them.
Since the pandemic broke out, teams around the world have been rushing to expand exposure notification applications, but in many cases considerations of confidentiality, power, and lack of acceptance as true have led to a low degree of public adoption. The Australian touch search app was little used and had insects that limited its effectiveness. Norway has suspended the use of its touch search app for privacy reasons through its own knowledge coverage authority.
In the United States, an asymmetric federal reaction to the pandemic has let states manage on their own, and the government of public fitness faces cuts and lack of funding.
“Public fitness infrastructure in the United States has been dramatically invested for more than 20 years,” Kohn said. “It is now understandable that billions of dollars are being invested in this space, and as an impartial open source organization, we hope to monitor and shape some of those investments to ensure their interoperability” or compatibility.
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Interoperability would mean that other programs at the U.S. state point can simply communicate data and knowledge to others.
Both LFPHI exposure notification projects are open source and are intended to extend back-end operability among other applications.
Another tool that LFPHI continuously introduces and refines is a control panel that tracks exposure notification and touch tracking programs. The dashboard breaks down programs that are based on whether they use location tracking by Bluetooth or GPS (which is considered more privacy-friendly than Bluetooth), whether apps are open source and provided through a public fitness authority, among other categories. Array Tool is one of the few complete databases that run to track those programs in this way.
The TCN Coalition, a global organization of technologists advancing the progression of exposure notification programs that maintain cross-compatibility privacy, was absorbed through LFPHI as a component of its launch.
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Jenny Wagner, former executive director of the TCN Coalition and now director of the LFPHI Implementers Forum, said the U.S. wants more programs based on Apple and Google protocols, as they will then be compatible with others. And we want more communication.
“One of the things we don’t know much about yet, because we haven’t had the chance to experiment, is what the message is to master them as public fitness tools,” he said. “Just as your seat belt is helping you, it’s a public fitness tool in a car. That’s how we want to think about those apps on people’s phones.”
As the world faces not only the COVID-19 pandemic, but also potential long-term pandemics, projects like LFPHI will offer a way to coordinate and expand responses to new pandemics that would possibly occur.
“The most demanding situations around exposure notification are not the generation,” Wagner said. “The cryptography is advanced, but it can be solved. Servers will only be servers. The maximum vital detail for this generation of paintings will be adoption and public perception.”
The Linux Foundation needs open source generation to deal with long-term pandemics
The Linux Foundation needs open source generation to deal with long-term pandemics