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Re:Google Is Tracking People's Movements in Their Communitie... by jefftk on Friday April 03, 2020 @09:07AM (#22768780)
That has way too many false positives to be worth notifying potential contacts over.

You could have something where people who have it can say "I have it, please let others I was near know" but unless we get testing up dramatically that won't work either.

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Re:Google Is Tracking People's Movements in Their Communitie... by ramboldio on Friday April 03, 2020 @09:25AM (#22768900)
Exactly, these are the things to get right. Hard problems but for sure not impossible.

Also, the alternative of total lock down is hard to beat when it comes to false positives. ;)

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