Contract tracing apps – will consensus create success? – Lexology

In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic a consensus quickly developed that contact tracing to alert individuals to possible exposure to someone with a COVID-19 diagnosis, would become crucial to public health management and the suppression of the virus. Around the world governments began commissioning and, in some cases, developing mobile phone apps to automate the contact tracing process.
The fact that almost every person in the developed world now carries at least one mobile phone on their…

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