From privacy to surveillance: Here's how the coronavirus pandemic is changing patient protections
Apple and Google are building massive coronavirus tracking apps. Government officials are disclosing infections to the public and pitching "immunity passports" and gadgets that can tell if an infected person leaves their house.
people can download to smartphones and use to confidentially designate themselves as infected. Bluetooth technology on the phones can then warn other app users who come in proximity long enough to be at risk of catching the disease. The system will collate data from both Android and iPhone users who sign up and is expected by mid-May. Microsoft isSome countries have already tried strategies that build on cellphone location data to track patients, raising privacy concerns.
“We know that some governments do not have best in class information security,” said Lucia Savage, a privacy expert with startup Omada Health.
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