Exposure Notification Technology is Ready for Its Closeup

Blog article by Kurt Opsahl. Electronic Frontier Foundation. September 8, 2020.

Blog article by Kurt Opsahl. Electronic Frontier Foundation.

September 8, 2020.

Since this COVID-19 crisis began people have looked to technology to assist in contact tracing and notification. Technology will never be a silver bullet to solve a deeply human crisis, even if it might assist. No app will work absent widespread testing with human follow up. Smartphones are not in the hands of everyone, so app-based COVID-19 assistance can reinforce or exacerbate existing social inequalities.

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