Google Apple Contact Tracing (GACT): a wolf in sheep’s clothes?

Re:Google Apple Contact Tracing (GACT): a wolf in sheep’s cl... by jka on Monday April 20, 2020 @03:57AM (#22922028)

I hadn't heard about the paper-based phone number sharing approach in Taiwan - do you have a link where I could find out more about that, out of interest?

Perhaps similar or related, I'd read that Taiwan's using an alert system[1] that uses the absence of cell phone activity as a sign that it may be necessary to check on the owner.

[1] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52017993

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Re:Google Apple Contact Tracing (GACT): a wolf in sheep’s cl... by rjzzleep on Monday April 20, 2020 @05:46AM (#22922465)

I don't really have a link. Taiwan uses triangulation to make sure you stay in place once you've been detected as someone who has been in contact.

Some places have digital access but in general the temperature measurement of bigger buildings are automated. But most places I went to had a paper form to fill out your details. I assume those are shared with law enforcement and CDC once one person who attended the building has been traced as a positive case and then all people and their contacts will be notified and tested.

There is no centralized government mandated central database that I know of. But I do know that once a crime happens they're quite good at tracing your public movements.

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