Smart Quarantine

The first principle when dealing with mobile applications should be that there can be utility gained for the citizen without sharing any information with the state. The sharing of information should be a choice of the citizen not a barrier that must be overcome. This means that elements such as risk maps and personal risk calculation based on that data should be calculated on the device without requiring the location or other information of the individual to be shared.

The next principle is that for data to be shared it does not need to be personally identifiable. If someone is confirmed as testing positive, see below for how validation can prevent malicious approaches, then all that is required is historical information associated with the device, it does not need to be identifiable back to that device or individual. Clearly technical elements such as IP and MAC addresses will be recorded within certain systems, but it must be that those recordings cannot be traced back to a specific data transfer as part of the normal operation of the solution.

The citizen should be able to select a few key elements when sharing the data:
1. The accuracy they are willing to share at - is it to the metre accurate, or should it be blurred by 10, 50 or 100m? This gives the citizen confidence that their privacy is being protected
2. Confirmation on how long they wish it to be stored - the mobile application should actively inform them of how long their individual submission will be stored for

These two elements help to give a citizen confidence that their privacy is protected and that the data is not traceable to themselves.

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