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> I wasn't a big fan of the Covid tracing app in the beginning, but in retrospect the concept of that app seems miles ahead of the current situation with the Lu
by catdog 5y ago
> I wasn't a big fan of the Covid tracing app in the beginning, but in retrospect the concept of that app seems miles ahead of the current situation with the Luca app.
I think the concept behind is really solid and a great example for what is possible w/o invading privacy. The only problem is that development got very very slow after the initial release and a lot of potential was wasted. E.g. adding some kind of check in feature was already discussed mid last year but it took them until now to pick that idea up.
- tgragnato 5y agoI only have positive things to say about our contact tracing application. It’s open source https://github.com/immuni-app https://github.com/immuni-app. It’s simple: contact tracing only, easy for non technical people. And has minimal tracking (I only see a periodic ping to get.immuni.gov.it)
- kitestramuort 5y agoYeah. Too bad nobody downloaded it
- mjlawson 5y agoImmuni is the official contact tracing app for Italy with 10mm downloads.
- tgragnato 5y agoWhich is not "nobody", but it is not even close to the statistical threshold of "enough use, helps prevent the spread of the disease"
- SahAssar 5y agoGlobally yes, but the thing about contact tracing is that it is inherently local. So getting 1/6:th (if we assume most of those downloads are in Italy) of a single country would probably be helpful in preventing spread.
- DuskStar 5y agoIt means 1/36 interactions will be recorded by the app, which is almost certainly not enough to move the needle.