<div dir="auto">I was joking with co-workers about the use of ankle bracelets for such purposes, but as it turns out some countries and companies are already mandating the equivalents!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/bracelets-beacons-barcodes-wearables-global-response-covid-19">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/bracelets-beacons-barcodes-wearables-global-response-covid-19</a><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/18/the-technologies-the-world-is-using-to-track-coronavirus-and-people/">https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/18/the-technologies-the-world-is-using-to-track-coronavirus-and-people/</a></span><br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">                                                                          Aryt</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 7, 2020, 11:44 AM Yosem Companys <<a href="mailto:ycompanys@gmail.com">ycompanys@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>From the article:</div><div><br></div><div>Harvard began piloting Tracefi — a Wi-Fi-based contact tracing system — this past Friday in preparation for freshmen and a select group of upperclassmen students’ return to campus later this month.<br><br>Tracefi uses the signals phones, laptops, and tablets constantly emit to Harvard’s Wi-Fi infrastructures to gather three pieces of information: a datetime stamp, the signal strength received by Harvard’s Wi-Fi infrastructure, and the MAC address of the mobile device. The system then stores the data for up to 28 days.<br><br>Harvard will use the Tracefi data to aid contract tracing efforts run by Harvard University Health Services and Harvard University Information Technology by providing information to human contact tracers about the specific whereabouts of infected individuals.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/8/2/tracefi-wifi-contract-tracing-coronavirus/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/8/2/tracefi-wifi-contract-tracing-coronavirus/</a></div></div>
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