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The app has inherently limited accuracy and I think the algorithm it's using would likely flag anyone who goes anywhere near an event where a large number of pe
by makomk 6y ago
The app has inherently limited accuracy and I think the algorithm it's using would likely flag anyone who goes anywhere near an event where a large number of people end up testing positive. It can't really tell the difference between, say, people attending a mass superspreading rave and mingling with contagious attendees with no protection, and police officers in PPE rounding up attendees who've been infected at the event but aren't contagious yet. It's just a fundamental limitation of using an automated app. This probably isn't a huge problem most of the time, but it seems like police using the app could rapidly deplete the ability to actually enforce Covid restrictions.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoCouldn't the officers just ignore the app recommendation, but still use it? If they don't use it at all, they become breaks in the transmission graph. In other words: if I was infected and attended a rave, a policeman interacted with me, and you interacted with that policeman two days later, you'd probably want to know about that fact and consider self-quarantining.