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somefool@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

COVID-19 digital contact tracing worked — heed the lessons for future pandemics

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COVID-19 digital contact tracing worked — heed the lessons for future pandemics

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somefool@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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For all the controversy over decentralized contact-tracing apps, data show that these privacy-preserving tools saved thousands of lives during the pandemic. National and international authorities must invest in the technology now.
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    Got a source for that? The approach google and Apple implemented was completely anonymous, even with rolling identifiers.

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      It was not the Google/Apple implementation. They were government funded apps which used a centralised db.

      https://thewest.com.au/politics/law-and-order/wa-police-accessed-contact-tracing-data-c-3118717

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