System Design

I was involved in the development and design of many real-world systems in which privacy played a key role.

As part of the DP-3T project, I helped to develop a protocol for privacy-preserving decentralised proximity tracing (Troncoso et al., 2020) that was later adopted by many countries around the world (Troncoso et al., 2022). At Privitar, I worked with a large number of organisations, across sectors and industries, to find general purpose technologies to enable the ethical and safe use of data (Cabot et al., 2022; McFALL et al., 2023).

Impact

The work of the DP3T consortium had an immense impact world-wide during the COVID19 pandemic.

EU privacy experts push a decentralised approach to COVID-19 contacts tracing. TechCrunch (2020)

Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone contact tracing. Reuters (2020)

Coronavirus apps: the risk of slipping into a surveillance state. Financial Times (2020)

Keine App mehr, uns alle zu tracken. Die Zeit (2020)

References

2023

  1. Patent
    Computer-implemented privacy engineering system and method
    Jason Derek McFALL, Charles Codman Cabot, Timothy James Moran, and 8 more authors
    Nov 2023
    US Patent App. 18/349,223

2022

  1. Conference
    Deploying decentralized, privacy-preserving proximity tracing
    Carmela Troncoso, Theresa Stadler, Dan Bogdanov, and 8 more authors
    Communications of the ACM, Nov 2022
  2. Patent
    Method or system for querying a sensitive dataset
    Charles Codman Cabot, Kieron Francois Pascal Guinamard, Jason Derek McFALL, and 6 more authors
    Sep 2022
    US Patent App. 17/618,765

2020

  1. Preprint
    Decentralized privacy-preserving proximity tracing
    Carmela Troncoso, Mathias Payer, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.12273, Sep 2020