Preliminary Analysis of Potential Harms in the Luca Tracing System

03/22/2021
by   Theresa Stadler, et al.
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In this document, we analyse the potential harms a large-scale deployment of the Luca system might cause to individuals, venues, and communities. The Luca system is a digital presence tracing system designed to provide health departments with the contact information necessary to alert individuals who have visited a location at the same time as a SARS-CoV-2-positive person. Multiple regional health departments in Germany have announced their plans to deploy the Luca system for the purpose of presence tracing. The system's developers suggest its use across various types of venues: from bars and restaurants to public and private events, such religious or political gatherings, weddings, and birthday parties. Recently, an extension to include schools and other educational facilities was discussed in public. Our analysis of the potential harms of the system is based on the publicly available Luca Security Concept which describes the system's security architecture and its planned protection mechanisms. The Security Concept furthermore provides a set of claims about the system's security and privacy properties. Besides an analysis of harms, our analysis includes a validation of these claims.

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