Why are Google and Apple dictating how European democracies fight coronavirus? | Ieva Ilves
In Latvia we wanted to harness smartphone technology for contact tracing. We ran into a Silicon Valley-built brick wall
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a rush by governments, private companies and digital startups to harness and develop the latest technologies in the fight against the spread of the virus.
To best meet public health needs, digital technology should be able to trace the spread of the virus, identify dangerous Covid-19 clusters and limit further transmission. The essential goal is to register contacts between potential carriers and those who might be infected. This has led to tech solutions using smartphones to perform the otherwise arduous and labour-intensive task of contact tracing" - determining who has come into contact with a disease carrier and what should be done when a person has had that contact.
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