Open Source GitHub Repo  |  Non Profit Partner: https://covidsafepaths.org/

Read the Whitepapers

• Apps Gone Rogue: Maintaining Personal Privacy in an Epidemic [FULL]
• Apps Gone Rogue: Maintaining Personal Privacy in an Epidemic [SUMMARY]
• Restarting the Economy and Avoiding Big Brother
• Proximity based Trust: Bluetooth for Epidemics 
• Contact Tracing: Holistic Solution beyond Bluetooth
• Adding Location Context to Apple/Google Exposure Notification Bluetooth API:  MIT SafePaths Encryption Proposals for GPS + Bluetooth

Team

Our team is composed of a consortium of epidemiologists, engineers, data scientists, digital privacy evangelists, professors and researchers from reputable institutions, including: MIT, Harvard, The Mayo Clinic, TripleBlind, EyeNetra, Ernst & Young and Link Ventures.

Team

Main Contact: Ramesh Raskar, MIT

Faculty team: Kevin Esvelt 

Mentors: Amandeep Gill (I-DAIR), Bernardo Mariano Jr (WHO), Brian McClendon, Don Rucker (HHS), and Subbu Subramanian. 

Faculty Mentors: Yael T. Kalai,  Hal Abelson, Jonathan Gruber, Nickolai Zeldovich,  and Adi Shamir.

Research Mentors: Yoshua Bengio (MILA), Richard Janda (McGill), John Halamka (Mayo Clinic) 

Covid Team: Covid SafePaths Team with PathCheck

Partners

Collaborator Projects 

CoVidActNow is a visualization of how interventions affect the impact of Corona Virus across each US State and County.

CovidWatch is providing open-source Bluetooth proximity data in an anonymized way and working with CoEpi for community epidemiology.

OpenMined is providing free open-source support to protect their user's data privacy.

PACT Bluetooth protocol will be available through SafePaths. The design has benefited from SafePaths’ early work in this area.

In the News

• Wired, Phones Could Track the Spread of Covid-19. Is it a Good Idea?
• MIT Technology Review, A New App Would Say If You're Crossed Paths With Someone Who Is Infected
• Fastcompany, An app for tracking coronavirus in your community is almost here
• Science, Cellphone tracking could help stem the spread of coronavirus. Is privacy the price?
• The Wall Street Journal, MIT Researchers Launch Location-Tracking Effort for the New Coronavirus
• Forbes, Two At 2 Million Guinea Pigs And Counting: The Remarkable Rise Of Self-Monitoring In The Time Of Coronavirus 
• MIT News (with PACT team), Bluetooth signals could automate Covid-19 contact tracing  

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