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somefool ( somefool@beehaw.org )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 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 ( somefool@beehaw.org )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 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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    What government/country was this, out of curiosity? I thought the whole point of the local-storage-only approach was protecting privacy, so curious how it could be used in investigations.

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      Australia. Government funded apps, not the Google/iOS implementation. It’s been a few years so I was a bit confused on the details. It is not stored locally which is how it was used.

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