[liberationtech] Harvard launches contact tracing app

[aryt alasti]

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!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/bracelets-beacons-barcodes-wearables-global-response-covid-19

https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/18/the-technologies-the-world-is-using-to-track-coronavirus-and-people/


Aryt

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020, 11:44 AM Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:

> From the article:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/8/2/tracefi-wifi-contract-tracing-coronavirus/
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