According to a demonstration of the company's software seen by Sky News, data on citizens would only be held by the authorities.
Governance of the data and the decision on how granular that data would be would remain in the hands of the customers.
For instance, matching the random identifiers to phone numbers would be possible, and potentially desirable if individual-level messaging in response to potential exposure was something the government wanted to do, but turning the random IDs into real people would happen off of the platform.
It is not clear how granular the location data being used in Israel would be were it deployed - this would be a decision for the authorities using the platform. This geoanalysis feature showed heat-maps which included two categories - the movements of known COVID-19 patients and those of people who had been potentially exposed to the virus after coming into contact with them.
Communities where these devices aren't present, notably including Ultra Orthodox communities where transmission rates are significantly higher than the rest of the population, would require additional government efforts to monitor and treat patients.Reports in Israel linking the company to government efforts to tackle the outbreak have provoked concerns from citizens complaining about what are seen as counter-terrorism powers being used for a medical emergency.
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