# Contact tracing

`kaal:entity:contact-tracing`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `contact-tracing`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782201-010](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782201-010) [empirical/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- Centralized authorities have a long record of using crises to justify the introduction of monitoring tools that outlast their original purpose.
  > centralized authorities have a long rec- ord of using crises to justify the introduction of monitoring tools that outlast their original purpose.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Future of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782201
- [3782201-039](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782201-039) [mechanism/argued] -- People participate more willingly with decentralized apps when their information remains under their personal control, and zero knowledge proofs make exactly that possible by allowing complex information to be shared for social improvement while personal information stays controlled.
  > People more willingly participate with decentralized apps, if their information remains under their personal control. ZK proofs allow people to do exactly that, sharing complex information for the purposes of social improvement, while maintaining control of their personal information.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Future of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782201

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/contact-tracing.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.