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Quote from: boyptc on June 29, 2020, 03:11:53 PM

These apps are helpful for tracing but aren't this app also is causing a possible repercussion on the users' end?

You are on point however the app asks about let's say your personal info so until then the user will decide if and when to share their data.

It is a requirement as it's a tracing app. I've seen also some posts on the web that it's already integrated to our phones, I haven't checked mine if it has the app already.

But if it will quicken the tracing for the active cases and separate them across the people that are not infected, it will help and hoping that the data it will gather won't be used and exploited.

Is there a specific app you guys are talking about for Android and iOS perhaps?

More importantly, I hope there are safeguards involved that's built-in to the app wherein users who register wouldn't have the ability to know the real identities of the actual persons that would either be Covid-19 positive, suspected, or negative status.

I've just seen a picture on social media but haven't checked nor updated my phone that's why I haven't one.

What you are saying is possible if they can use alias like Case01, C-patient01, etc. or any code just to indicate that someone near is positive.

No, not really an alias. What I meant was, if the correct and legitimate info you enter on the "contact tracing apps" are not easily accessible by just anyone, then that's fine.

Also, if I understood correctly about how these type of apps work, once a hospital or testing centers confirms a positive COVID-19 case-patient, the info is entered on a database (including whoever that person got in touch with based on the parameters provided that would be considered to be a suspected COVID-19 case-patient), then everyone else who will enter their info on these contact tracing apps would be notified and instructed accordingly on what to do next after the database confirms the identity provided by the positive COVID-19 case-patient (without informing the suspected COVID-19 case-patient), then that's alright since the identity of the positive COVID-19 case-patient is still anonymous to those persons that he or she may have a previous contact with beforehand.