Contact Tracking Privacy, Zoom Buys Keybase, Microsoft Watches CyberX – TechCrunch

Like the world Seeming to reopen after weeks of blockade, governments are turning to contact tracing to understand the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

Most nations are turning to privacy oriented apps who use Bluetooth signals to create an anonymous profile of where a person has been and when. Some, like Israel, are resisting the trend and are using location data and cellphones to track the spread, raising privacy concerns.

Some of the largest European economies [Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Ireland] create apps that work with Apple and the Google Contact Tracking API. But the United Kingdom, one of the most affected nations

As expected, critics have privacy and security issuesso much so that the UK can end change to the Apple and Google system anyway. Since one of Israel's contact tracking systems was found on a server without a password this week, and India has denied a privacy issue in your contact tracking appThere isn't much room for error.

It turns out that even during a pandemic, people still care about their privacy.

Here's more of the week.

THE PANORAMA

Zoom acquires Keybase, but questions remain

When Zoom was announced acquired Beginning of the Keybase online encryption key, for many, the reaction was sweeter than wild. Even Keybase, a service that allows users to store and manage their encryption keys, has recognized its uncertain future. "The future of Keybase is in the hands of Zoom, and we'll see where it takes us," the company wrote in a blog post. The terms of the contract are not disclosed.

Zoom to security snafu face after snafu. But after dancing around the problems, he promised call the cavalry and double by correcting your encryption. So far so good. But where is Keybase, largely a consumer product, in the fray? This it doesn't ring as even Zoom still knows, according to company reporter Ron Miller. What is clear is that Zoom needs help with encryption, and few have the techniques to do it.