Some see smartphone apps as the only way to scale up the effort to reach people at risk of spreading the disease. — AFP picEfforts in the United States to track the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus — known as contact tracing — have become a patchwork based on differing approaches to technology and civil liberties.
Some jurisdictions are seeking centralized control through health agencies and to use satellite GPS location — which the tech firms won’t allow due to concerns over privacy and civil liberties.“We don’t yet know if any of these technologies will work, but we do know that we currently lack many of the protections needed to guard against abuse or overreach,” said Neema Singh Guliani of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Utah’s Healthy Together app uses a similar system while promising to delete location and Bluetooth data after 30 days. To be effective, digital tracing needs buy-in from at least 40 to 60 per cent of a population, according to some researchers. Claire Standley, a professor at the Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security, said digital tracing efforts may be hampered by a low rate of adoption and competing systems.
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