PowerPoint Primer: Bluetooth Contact Tracing

May 22, 2020

For more on COVID-19 and contact tracing, see our recent post Contact Tracing Apps Are Not a Silver Bullet
 

• Jane C. Timm, "Fact check: Trump says the U.S. ready to contain COVID-19 with contact tracing. Experts disagree." NBC News, April 28, 2020, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fact-check-trump-says-u-s-ready-contain-covid-19-n1195621

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• Patrick Howell O'Neill, "Bluetooth contact tracing needs bigger, better data," MIT Technology Review, April 22, 2020, https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/22/1000353/bluetooth-contact-tracing-needs-bigger-better-data/. 

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• Robert Slonim, "In some places 40% of us may have downloaded COVIDSafe. Here’s why the government should share what it knows," The Conversation, May 12, 2020, https://theconversation.com/in-some-places-40-of-us-may-have-downloaded-covidsafe-heres-why-the-government-should-share-what-it-knows-138323
• "TraceTogether," Singapore Government Digital Services, Accessed 5/22/20, https://www.tracetogether.gov.sg/. 
• Bobbie Johnson, "Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a covid app—and it hasn’t helped much," MIT Technology Review, May 11, 2020, https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/11/1001541/iceland-rakning-c19-covid-contact-tracing/. 
• Craig Timberg, Drew Harwell, and Alauna Safarpour, "Most Americans are not willing or able to use an app tracking coronavirus infections. That’s a problem for Big Tech’s plan to slow the pandemic," The Washington Post, April 29, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/29/most-americans-are-not-willing-or-able-use-an-app-tracking-coronavirus-infections-thats-problem-big-techs-plan-slow-pandemic/. 
• Kif Leswing, "Utah has rejected the Apple-Google approach to tracing coronavirus, and is using an app made by a social media start-up instead," CNBC, May 13, 2020, https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/13/utah-contact-tracing-healthy-together-app.html. 

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• Reed Albergotti and Drew Harwell, "Apple and Google are building a virus-tracking system. Health officials say it will be practically useless," The Washington Post, May 15, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/15/app-apple-google-virus/. 
• Helene Fouquet, "France Says Apple Bluetooth Policy Is Blocking Virus Tracker," Bloomberg, April 20, 2020, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-20/france-says-apple-s-bluetooth-policy-is-blocking-virus-tracker. 
• Leo Kelion, "NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan," BBC, April 27, 2020, https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52441428.

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• Jason Bay, "Automated contact tracing is not a coronavirus panacea," Medium, April 10, 2020, https://blog.gds-gov.tech/automated-contact-tracing-is-not-a-coronavirus-panacea-57fb3ce61d98. 
• Bobbie Johnson, "Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a covid app—and it hasn’t helped much," MIT Technology Review, May 11, 2020, https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/11/1001541/iceland-rakning-c19-covid-contact-tracing/.