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<b>Tech policy/Privacy</b><br>
<font size="+2"><b>"Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a covid
app—and it hasn’t helped much"</b></font><br>
<i>The country has the highest penetration of any automated contact
tracing app in the world, but one senior figure says it “wasn’t a
game changer.”</i><br>
by Bobbie Johnson<br>
<b>MIT Technology Review</b><br>
May 11, 2020<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/11/1001541/iceland-rakning-c19-covid-contact-tracing/">https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/11/1001541/iceland-rakning-c19-covid-contact-tracing/</a><br>
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When Iceland got its first case of covid-19 on February 28, an
entire apparatus sprang into action. <br>
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The country had already been testing some people at high risk of
catching the virus, thanks to DeCode genetics, a local biotech
company. Once the arrival of the disease was confirmed, it began
rapidly rolling out public testing on a much wider scale. The
government, meanwhile, quickly built a team of contact tracers to
interview those with a positive diagnosis and track down people
they’d been in contact with.<br>
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<font color="#b3b3b3"><i>Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.<br>
Principal Technologist &<br>
</i><i>Distinguished Senior Research Scholar</i><i><br>
</i><i>Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)</i><i><br>
</i><i>University of Hawai'i</i></font></div>
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