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France's contact-tracing app uninstalled by nearly half a million people
- Markoff 6y ago> Even with more than a million people still running the app, just 68 people who had become infected with coronavirus reported their symptoms to the app, resulting in 205 warnings being sent to other users.... 205 warned users out of more than million users doesn't strike me as very efficient.
- CyanBird 6y agoWell, that's 205 warninga that would have otherwise not being sent Sure far from efficient, but overall good I'd like to know how has the south Korean app faired and if south Korea has forced certain features of the app into the user such as constant location tracking
- mytailorisrich 6y agoIn Korea I believe that people who have tested positive have their smartphones directly tracked by the cellular network with alerts automatically issued if the device leaves the person's home.
- mytailorisrich 6y agoAssuming 1 million users of the app, between 3 and 9 users catch the virus per day. There won't be many warnings issued since so few people have the app the number of recorded contacts is going to be low for the same reason. This highlights is what had already been said about tracing apps: They must be used by a significant majority of the population, and individuals should not have to take action to trigger warnings beyond being tested. If anything this strengthen my belief that these apps will end up being most useless because of they are deployed too late, they are not installed on enough devices, and users have to take active actions/data are not immediately available to authorities.