I like the idea of contact tracing apps and, as we can see, people are already working on them. FWIW, the German Hanover Medical School is also collaborating with a software dev on an app for (mainly) Germany: https://www.geohealthapp.de
It collects anonymous location histories of infected people and crosschecks locally with your location history, as far as I understood. Needs data donations to create a map of spatiotemporal high-risk locations, though.
Thanks, and that’s great to see. Seems like it might just take longer than I expected to make something like this and there are already a few in the works. I’d be interested to get thoughts on whether regional or global apps are better. There are some gains to having more people on the same app since it shares more information, but given current travel restrictions and limited flying, that may only be true within certain area. And regional apps have the ability to try different things and customize towards their respective cultures / privacy preferences.
I like the idea of contact tracing apps and, as we can see, people are already working on them. FWIW, the German Hanover Medical School is also collaborating with a software dev on an app for (mainly) Germany: https://www.geohealthapp.de
It collects anonymous location histories of infected people and crosschecks locally with your location history, as far as I understood. Needs data donations to create a map of spatiotemporal high-risk locations, though.
Thanks, and that’s great to see. Seems like it might just take longer than I expected to make something like this and there are already a few in the works. I’d be interested to get thoughts on whether regional or global apps are better. There are some gains to having more people on the same app since it shares more information, but given current travel restrictions and limited flying, that may only be true within certain area. And regional apps have the ability to try different things and customize towards their respective cultures / privacy preferences.