The person and their phone would need to be nearby for at least five minutes, and maybe longer depending on how the apps are developed. That wouldn’t be long enough to create a log on your phone. The notification would have information on what to do next: perhaps get tested and self-isolate. All the matching takes place on your phone, not on a central server, and the servers don’t even know whose phones are getting alerts. Privacy would be built into it, according to the plan outlined by the companies. Tests are still in short supply, and a solution may still be weeks away. will first need a robust testing system in place before it makes sense to deploy a smartphone app to trace people, researchers said. The apps would be, in theory, an anonymous and secure record of people’s recent in-person encounters, so that if someone tests positive for the coronavirus, the apps can figure out who else among their close contacts may have been infected in the days before.
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But the companies are developing toolkits that are built around Bluetooth - the same technology used to connect phones to wireless earbuds or speakers. Instead, public health authorities in states and cities are poised to do that.
A broad outline of the planning has begun to emerge in the days after the two California-based tech giants said in a rare joint statement April 10 that they would work together to try to use technology to track and slow the virus.Īt least at first, Apple and Google won’t build the apps.
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