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Re:Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone cont... by ppod on Monday April 27, 2020 @08:52AM (#22995316)
> As a result there are some false positives.

Could this be a feature rather than a bug here? Help maintain tracing to a very high level statistically while still giving plausible deniability for personal privacy?

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Re:Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone cont... by 0xBeefFed on Monday April 27, 2020 @01:55PM (#22998180)
This is definitely by design. The Cuckoo Filter relies on hashes of the input so there is a chance of collisions. My understanding is a Cuckoo Filter is a recent extension of a Bloom Filter, if you're familiar with those.
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