Tag: Contact Tracing
For States’ COVID Contact Tracing Apps, Privacy Tops Utility
Nearly half the states have or are planning to launch a digital contact tracing system, but critics say the technology has overemphasized privacy at the cost of usefulness.
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Contact tracing: what is it, how does it work?
Contact tracing is how public health workers identify people who may have COVID-19 and not know it and help them avoid spreading it to others.
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To prevent spread of COVID-19, Washington state expands contact tracing capacity
Goal is to contact everyone with a positive COVID-19 test within 24 hours to identify their close contacts and contact them within 48 hours.
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Contact tracing does not require invasive hi-tech surveillance
While most discussions of contact tracing have focused on countries’ use of surveillance technology, contact tracing is actually a fairly manual process..
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