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These will fail. 1) Not accurate enough; 2) Don’t account for walls/floors; 3) Will have low adoption where anything less than full adoption means fail; 4) can’
by unstatusthequo 6y ago
These will fail. 1) Not accurate enough; 2) Don’t account for walls/floors; 3) Will have low adoption where anything less than full adoption means fail; 4) can’t account for actually having a virus.
False positives and false negatives combined with lack of rapid result testing will also make this useless. This is why Google and Apple looked around the room and slowly tiptoed away.
Then we have the GDPR. Beat of luck making sure you’re compliant.
Just don’t. Humans do a better job with contact tracing. Not everything needs to be hit over the head with a technology cudgel.
- Fragoel2 6y agoI don't think these apps will be a success either but Immuni (the Italian contact tracing app) had more than 500k downloads in a single day on iOS and it's still in testing regime, available only in 4 regions out of 20
- tigershark 6y agoHow GDPR applies to random numbers uploaded to a server?
- giovannibajo1 6y agoI’d like proof that humans are better at recollecting two weeks of random encounters on the streets, compared to an imprecise Bluetooth app. Immuni (Italian app) has been analyzed and certified as GDPR compliant by the Italian privacy watchdog, that has a technical department that is actually able to read and understand technical documentation.
- devilmoon 6y agoWhy would it need to account for wall/floors? Two phones will exchange codes when they are less than 1m away, you would have to try very hard to get two people as close as 1m with a wall in between