Like fitness trackers, contact tracing apps could give feedback on a person’s daily performance to “nudge” them into doing a little better ...
GLASGOW: Contact tracing has long been used in response to disease outbreaks. It is simply the idea of asking an infected person who they have been in contact with and then notifying the people in question to try and control the spread of the disease.
In Australia, for example, the government has struggled to convince even its own MPs that its proposed app will be private enough.In the UK, recent survey data provides room for cautious optimism: 65 per cent of people agree with using smartphones for contact tracing. Among those 55 to 75 years old, support is nearing 73 per cent, while for those 18 to 34, it is 59 per cent.
So even as more countries’ apps go live, social distancing will continue to be the main way for people to protect themselves for the time being. One piece of research also found that an essential factor in people being willing to social distance was if they thought they could do it; the longer people are expected to stick to the coronavirus guidelines, the more they will probably feel they can’t keep doing it.
On a regular basis, the app will fetch the identifiers of all people in the country who have tested positive for COVID-19 or are at very high risk of having been infected.
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