[liberationtech] On 'Contact-Tracing' Benefit......

[Robert Mathews (OSIA)]

*Tech policy/Privacy*
*"Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a covid app—and it hasn’t helped much"*
/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.”/
by Bobbie Johnson
*MIT Technology Review*
May 11, 2020
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/11/1001541/iceland-rakning-c19-covid-contact-tracing/

When Iceland got its first case of covid-19 on February 28, an entire
apparatus sprang into action.

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.

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--
/Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.
Principal Technologist &
//Distinguished Senior Research Scholar//
//Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)//
//University of Hawai'i/
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