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VOLUME 38 • NUMBER 38 • AUGUST 13, 2020
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CYBERSECURITY Cybersecurity issues in contact tracing
BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENTAL REPORTER
ob Sloan, research director of Wall Street Jounal (WSJ) Pro, recently hosted a webinar on cybersecurity issues in contact tracing for COVID-19. Ex-
plaining that aps are the method being used by governments, health agencies, and private industry to determine if one has been in contact with another person who later tests positive for the coronavirus, Sloan said, “Apps are viewed as being an essential part of getting people back to work and starting the economic recovery, but in order to be effective, apps
need to be used by at least 60 percent of the population, and so far, adoption in many countries has fallen well short of that.” He surmised that “cybersecurity concerns might be behind that low uptick.” Panelists for the discussion were Nathalie Moreno, data protection and cybersecurity partner at Addleshaw Goddard in London, Loeke Moerel,
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professor of global law and technology at Tilburg University in The Netherlands and Senior of Counsel at Morrison and Foerster in Brussels, Jessica Lee, co-chair of privacy, security and data innovations at Loeb and Loeb, and David Starobinski, professor of electrical and computer engineering, systems engineering, and computer science at Boston
University. The moderator was Catherine Stupp, reporter, WSJ Pro Cybersecurity. Stupp explained that there are two primary models for contact tracing apps. With the decentralized model, one’s data is stored on the user’s personal device. With the centralized model, data is stored Continued on page 6