Short Paper: Privacy Comparison of Contact Tracing Mobile Applications for COVID-19
It addresses privacy concerns for users of contact tracing apps, but the work appears incremental as it reviews existing systems without introducing new methods.
This paper analyzes the privacy aspects of various smartphone contact tracing applications used during the COVID-19 pandemic to notify individuals exposed to the virus, but it does not report specific results or numbers.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, quarantines took place across the globe. In the aim of stopping or slowing the progression of the COVID-19 contamination, many countries have deployed a contact tracing system to notify persons that be in contact with a COVID-positive person. The contact tracing system is implemented in a mobile application and leverages technologies such as Bluetooth to trace interactions between persons. This paper discusses different smart-phone applications based on contact tracing system from privacy point of view.