CNBC April 16, 2020
Key Points
– Contact tracing is the process of asking infected patients who they’ve recently come into contact with.
– Governments and big tech companies are looking at ways of logging that data through smartphones.
– Critics are concerned that some of the initiatives could impinge on people’s privacy.
– CNBC runs through all the major global initiatives on contact tracing software.
Governments around the world are developing mobile apps to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus using a method known as “contact tracing.”
Contact tracing is the process of asking infected patients who they’ve recently come into contact with. The logic being that, by doing so, health authorities are able to better identify the people at risk of...
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