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Code of Conduct

Thursday, Apr 16, 2020 by ito Team statement

Preamble Transparency, traceability and privacy are our highest priorities. It is important to us to communicate in a transparent way with all our members, partners and users of the app and to share the measures we take to protect their data. The code of conduct provides information on how data is generated, used and processed as well as the ethical ground we operate on. Since it is an open source project, this documentation should also communicate our standards to all partners and otherwise associated parties.

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TCN Coalition

Tuesday, Apr 7, 2020 by ito Team statement, news, coalition

On Sunday, April 5, 2020, a global, open coalition emerged for digital contact tracing protocols to flatten the curve and stop the spread of COVID-19 while reopening the economy. We at ITO are proud to be one of the founding teams, after our successful participation in the #WirVsVirus Hackathon. Over the course of the past few weeks, the global community of technologists, privacy experts, and epidemiologists have worked tirelessly towards a secure, privacy-first, GDPR-compliant and open-source approach to enable globally compatible contact tracing.

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What we think about PEPP-PT

Friday, Apr 3, 2020 by ito Team review, statement

In order to understand our situation, we would first like to briefly describe how things evolved from our perspective. We were not very surprised when the project PEPP-PT [Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing] publicly launched, since it had been announced that some relevant institutions were working on a solution during the #WeVsVirus results ceremony. While we understand that it was unforeseeable how much progress the hackathon teams would make towards a tracing solution in one weekend, we did assume that once it became clear how many highly qualified developers, data protection officers and other experts were involved, a common discourse would emerge.

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