Apps that do contact tracing seem like safety theater. Governments are excited to claim they have fancy tech, but even the most used, Singapore’s app, has 13% usage and so can detect less than 2% of transmission pairs.https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/03/26/countries-are-using-apps-and-data-networks-to-keep-tabs-on-the-pandemic …
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I predict one round of optimistic PR, followed by a near-zero percent of people opting in to use this, and subsequent abandonment
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Maybe if it were useful within a single workplace, that could provide enough value to bootstrap. Hard to see it scaling to "Someone sick was on BART, now we need to alert everyone on that car" though. I think it would be easier to mandate scanning an ID code in most situations.
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Why not. They already know since many years all the people in the same BART bus or in any shop, look at the data taken from my map history when I proposed Italy gov that citizens could provide data voluntarily without waiting 4 Google to be involvedpic.twitter.com/hpR3PZ6nkv
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I think this conversation/the general issue with opt in is assumption users don’t receive much value in opting in. I think we might be underestimating the value here - users will be able to see if they’ve come in contact which for many is a huge value add.
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Additionally, a huge issue initially for other products is due to lack of initial network, initial users get discouraged and never open/use the app. I have sense this UX will not do that- users will see initial 0 as “I haven’t encountered someone” but will keep checking.
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What if Apple and Google can give $10 in App credit for anyone enabling the app after a full month of and $1,000 cash for anyone that is verified COV-19 positive and logged it in?
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