information Wi-Fi Contact Tracing Is An Unacceptable Violation of Privacy

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Within the past few weeks, a select number of our peers have returned to campus to begin their fall semester. To curtail a potential on-campus outbreak of COVID-19, Harvard is piloting TraceFi: a Wi-Fi-based contact tracing system that would track these undergraduates’ locations. Tracefi uses the signal of personal electronic devices emitted to Harvard’s Wi-Fi to register “a datetime stamp” that’s linked to the MAC address, storing information about students' exact location on campus.
The implications of such a surveillance system can't be understated.

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