"In a pandemic, good science is what we need. Now, a year and a half later, in People Count: Contact Tracing Apps and Public Health, Tufts University professor Susan Landau has set out to make a sober assessment." ZDNET
"Contact-tracing apps can be a useful tool for public health, but they have considerable false positive and false negative rates." Big Think
Preface Introduction 1. Stopping a Pandemic 2. Adding Technology to Contact Tracing 3. Protecting Privacy While Tracing Disease 4. Can Contact-Tracing Apps be Effective Tools of Public Health? 5. Looking to the Long Term Acknowledgements Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Susan Landau is Bridge Professor of Cyber Security and Policy at The Fletcher School and at the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, at Tufts University. She is the coauthor of Privacy on the Line (MIT Press) and the author of Surveillance or Security? (MIT Press) and Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age.