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COVID-19 Contact tracing efforts

US Efforts:

Covid Watch

https://www.covid-watch.org/

Private Kit, Safe Paths

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615372/coronavirus-infection-tests-app-pandemic-location-privacy/

http://safepaths.mit.edu/

South Korea’s Tracking Effort

Their app

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615329/coronavirus-south-korea-smartphone-app-quarantine/

SMS messages about cases locations, etc.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00740-y

Other Articles

Wired’s reporting on S Korea and China’s use of apps
https://www.wired.com/story/phones-track-spread-covid19-good-idea/]

Open letter asking tech companies to implement opt-in contact tracing:

https://stop-covid.tech/

Israeli intelligence efforts to track people and use that data for epidemiological purposes

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/world/middleeast/israel-coronavirus-cellphone-tracking.html

Singaporean government released their own Trace Together app last week and they're now working to open-source it.

Pros:

uses Bluetooth to track proximity between the user's phones and notifies anyone who has been in vicinity of someone who tested positive (there is an interesting story here on how they had to first overcome the issue of varying Bluetooth strength based on phone models)
does not collect personal information (a consent is needed upfront)
does not capture GPS data
installed by 620,000 users (as of 23 March) which is roughly 11% of Sin... (read more)

4John_Maxwell7y

Here's some contact tracing discussion on reddit, you might want to post there/contact individuals there: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fksnbf/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/fkuoxbi/

3Jeffrey Ladish7y

Government and tech companies / tracking https://www.wsj.com/articles/to-track-virus-governments-weigh-surveillance-tools-that-push-privacy-limits-11584479841 Palintir already helping government track cases -- Article notes that government can get location data from telecoms, but that google has even more precise data from maps and android, which the government can also ask for in an emergency