The Professional Services Team at the PathCheck Foundation has helped jurisdictions get cross-functions (Governor’s office, Department of Health, Epidemiologies, IT, Partners, etc.) collaborate together to build a customized COVID-19 mobile app

For many of us, it is still unclear what GAEN-based contact tracing is all about. The Responsible AI initiative embarked on an effort to bring some clarity to the general public and states...

We have been heads down the last few weeks helping many jurisdictions bring their resources together with our team to build COVID-19 exposure notification solutions that leverage the Google Apple Exposure Notification (GAEN) API.

When we spun PathCheck Foundation out of MIT in February as a global collaboration to create privacy-preserving technology to contain COVID-19, we couldn’t have imagined how fast and large our effort would grow.

Exposure Notification and Contact Tracing: How AI Helps Localities Reopen Safely and Researchers Find a Cure

On June 28, we officially announced a change that had been in the works for more than a month. We renamed our organization and technologies. Here is a quick summary:

Q&A with TripleBlind, Steve Penrod, Greg Storm & Riddhiman Das In conversation with Communications at COVID Safe Paths – Deepti Pahwa, Innovation & Brand Strategy Consultant and Mahdi Fahda, Product Ops Specialist & OSS Community Manager

Q&A with Kyle Towle, Technology team at Safe Paths, former Senior Director of Cloud Technology at PayPal. In conversation with Deepti Pahwa, Communications team at Safe Paths and Innovation & Brand Strategy Consultant As the pandemic forces us to…

On May 4, 2020, Google and Apple released new details about the Google Apple Exposure Notification API (GAEN). GAEN provides a new way for public health authorities (PHAs) to implement a digital contact tracing solution that uses Bluetooth…

Contact tracing requires a strong understanding of location and context of encounters. Although Bluetooth technology does not provide location or context of the encounters, we would like to share our excitement and also some thoughts about…

Q&A with Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab In conversation with Anil Ananthaswamy, MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow Researchers and technology companies have begun racing to automate the process of locating people infected…

The key to containing the COVID-19 epidemic and its economic consequences If you had to choose between safety and privacy, what would you choose? If you had to choose between your source of income and your individual rights, which would…

It will still be the role of the Public Health smartphone app to decide how to use the location-time context to build a full fledged contract tracing and public health solution.

Surveillance State, or a Better Option? Difficult times lead to clear perspectives. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has stopped “life as normal” across much of the world. As governments and healthcare systems put into place strict…