In this episode, Anna catches up with Claudia Diaz, professor at KU Leuven (https://www.kuleuven.be/english/) and the Chief Science Officer at Nym Technology (https://nymtech.net/) to learn about mixnets, the history of privacy technology and how there may be some opportunities for new privacy tech to emerge in this post-pandemic world.
Here is the contact tracing project that Claudia highlights in the episode:
Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (https://www.pepp-pt.org/)
Analysis of DP3T (https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/399.pdf)
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