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Do we need a Contact Tracing App?
May 20, 2020 Β· Declared Dead Β· π Computer Communications
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Authors
Leonardo Maccari, Valeria Cagno
arXiv ID
2005.10187
Category
cs.CY: Computers & Society
Cross-listed
cs.NI
Citations
45
Venue
Computer Communications
Last Checked
6 months ago
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to shed some light on the usefulness of a contact tracing smartphone app for the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic. We review the basics of contact tracing during the spread of a virus, we contextualize the numbers to the case of COVID-19 and we analyse the state of the art for proximity detection using Bluetooth Low Energy. Our contribution is to assess if there is scientific evidence of the benefit of a contact tracing app in slowing down the spread of the virus using present technologies. Our conclusion is that such evidence is lacking, and we should re-think the introduction of such a privacy-invasive measure.
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