#Tracing

Rajeev Matta

RajeevMatta

Aarogya Setu's website says it was developed by the National Informatics Centre & the Information Technology Ministry but according to the Central Information Commission, various ministries & departments had given

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

In the press conference Prof Van Tam admitted that circuit breakers work less well as cases rise. And that cases are rising in every region. That's why SAGE argued for

Gregory A. Maniatis

gmaniatis

To control the pandemic, we MUST work with immigrant communities, gain their trust, speak their language. A slew of reports in recent days show how contract tracing is failing because

Markus Luczak-Roesch

MLuczak

We'll see lots of efforts for #covid19 digital contact tracing soon, as it is understood to substantially improve time delay and overall capacity in contact tracing. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/30/science.abb6936 https://

hal 👾

halhod

abundantly clear, to me at least, that privacy issues are not the main challenge with contact tracing apps. the biggest problem is figuring out a mapping for location/proximity>infection that is

Ben Adida

benadida

1/ Last night, I spent some quality time with the Apple docs on the new contact tracing protocol and APIs they and Google are preparing.I'm quite optimistic about this effort.

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

I learned that testing is steadily being ramped up, digital solutions to contact tracing are being developed, some of the 750,000 volunteers are being matched to community support, they are

David Crowe

CroweDM

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the commonwealth will have no access to the data from the new tracing app.He says the data will be stored in an encrypted file that

CarolineJMolloy

carolinejmolloy

This week the government duped us.It spun that its failed national contact tracing scheme was transforming into a proper local system.& the media bought the spin. Save this thread, so

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

THREAD 1/ Germany has had quite a strong response to #covid19 and purportedly may never cross its threshold for healthcare capacity through social distancing alone.Why is that?This @nytimes piece (cc

nex

botherder

On May 22nd, Qatar made mandatory the use of their COVID-19 contact tracing app #EHTERAZ, with severe penalties for those found without it. We found glaring privacy issues that left

Kazim Beebeejaun

KazimB

1/ A lot of interesting discussion recently on NHSX contact tracing app proposals in the UK following on from innovations in Singapore, South Korea and Israel. Some thoughts on what

Dean Rivando ⚒ ⚓ φ

drivandalism

For those thinking about installing a #COVID19 tracing app: just don't. The potential for abuse of power, hacking, data misuse is enormous. Don't hand yourself on a plate to law

monicaheisey

monicaheisey

WHY are twentysomething women not in charge of contact tracing?? you could show my friends a photo of a random pub full of men and have their ages, occupations, probable

mayeesha

mayeezus

Gosh this COVID-19 app discourse is something else. Yes, whoever can should be downloading it. It's not out to steal your data and has strong privacy protections in place. However,

Moxie Marlinspike

moxie

It's kind of interesting that we're in a place where the Apple CT APIs are a precondition to people attempting serious contact tracing from the app layer. iOS has made