People Count
People Count An introduction to the technology of contact tracing and its usefulness for public health, considering questions of efficacy, equity, and privacy.How do you stop a pandemic before a…
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People Count
An introduction to the technology of contact tracing and its usefulness for public health, considering questions of efficacy, equity, and privacy.How do you stop a pandemic before a vaccine arrives? Smartphones can collect some of the information required by contact tracers--not just where you've been but also who's been near you. Contact tracing is key, the first step in a process that has proven effective: trace, test, and isolate.
In People Count, cybersecurity expert Susan Landau looks at some of the apps developed for contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that issues of effectiveness and equity intersect.Landau explains the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of a range of Can we repurpose the tracking technology that we carry with us--devices with GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and social media connectivity--to serve public health in a pandemic?