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Re:Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing tech... by olgs on Friday April 10, 2020 @01:26PM (#22835169)
Looks like it was inspired by the TraceTogether app built by the Singapore Government and recently Opensourced.

https://www.gov.sg/article/help-speed-up-contact-tracing-wit...

https://github.com/OpenTrace-community

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Re:Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing tech... by the_mitsuhiko on Friday April 10, 2020 @01:28PM (#22835183)
> Looks like it was inspired by the TraceTogether app built by the Singapore Government and recently Opensourced.

Not really. This is based on the TCN approaches by Covid-Watch, Co-Epi and DP-3T (submission to PEPP-PT). TraceTogether fundamentally functions very differently.

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Re:Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing tech... by ericlavigne on Friday April 10, 2020 @11:19PM (#22839426)
Link to the TCN Coalition: https://tcn-coalition.org/

I am one of the developers working on Co-Epi, and am very happy to see that Apple and Google are improving their APIs to support our work.

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