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>can have data housed in each country where they see fit Hadn't thought of this until you mentioned it, but having it only work within a country could signific
by breischl 6y ago
>can have data housed in each country where they see fit
Hadn't thought of this until you mentioned it, but having it only work within a country could significantly hinder the ability to trace imported cases (ie, cases from travelers).
If the data is housed in country-of-citizenship, then travelers would not notify people they contact while abroad.
If the data is housed in country-of-current-location, then people who test positive while abroad might not notify people in their home country whom they contacted before leaving. There might also be failures cases when they return home, but those could probably be solved with careful implementation.
Regardless, this seems like a case where a single international, globally-accessible registry is useful. And therefore privacy becomes a very important concern.
- garmaine 6y agoWhat travelers.
- breischl 6y agoFair point right now, but that's not going to be the case forever. And once things start to open up again and cases are less common, this kind of contact tracing will become even more important to track down new outbreaks.
- radicalbyte 6y agoThe ones who live in Germany and work in France. Replace with most European countries.
- MandieD 6y agoResidents of a country where they are not a citizen, like me (American living in Germany). A year from now, I might decide to visit my home country, and even be allowed back in, and if I stood in the customs line in Amsterdam near a Frenchman who hung out with someone in Montreal who turned up positive, it would be in everyone's interest for me to know I was exposed. Even traveling between Munich and Nuremberg, a one hour trip, I might be on a train near an Austrian who saw no reason to leave Munich during all this heading up to Berlin to finish a consulting contract, but a week ago had been in a meeting with a German who turned up positive. Our Austrian consultant would have been allowed to stay this past "shelter-in-place" month if she had a lease on an apartment and had registered it as her primary residence - no residence permit required, as she's an EU citizen. Again, it would be in everyone's interest for the three of us (and everyone we had much time around) to know about when the exposure took place and that we might need to self-quarantine/be tested.
- aplummer 6y agoI think travelers might be managed by a more "high touch" quarantining process in most countries to ensure they cannot spread the virus.