Overview

The Google/Apple exposure notification system includes a variety of protections to ensure privacy by design. Protections to make the system more voluntary and more secure can also impede its effectiveness in stemming disease. Does the system remain vulnerable to dangerous attacks, despite the existing protections? Do some of the existing protections give up too much epidemiological effectiveness for too little gain in privacy?

Two debaters, both pioneers of decentralized exposure notification protocols, will advocate for different positions along a continuum of possibilities, arguing for different ways of balancing the competing values of privacy and effectiveness.

While these positions must be grounded in the range of technical possibilities, societal decisions should not be made by techies alone, and so this will be followed by responses from experts from other relevant disciplines.