Apple and Google are among the many organizations worldwide offering a digital solution to contact tracing — the act of finding out every person a coronavirus patient has come in contact with. Their method? To use the Bluetooth in your smartphone to detect who you’ve been in close proximity with. Tracking users throughout the world via their phone will always feel invasive, but in a time of global pandemic, would we regret not making use of every tool available to us?
Mozilla is announcing its 2024 Data Futures Lab Infrastructure Fund awardees: five ambitious projects building tools that address issues of transparency, privacy, bias, and agency in the data lifecycle.
