Apple and google continue to work on the app they want to be used globally to help fight the COVID-19 infection, and today They have gone one step further by showing us an application example and how we will be notified of a possible exposure.
Apple has made an example application available to all countries that accept it, whose source code is available to download and use as a basis for the application that each country wants to develop, and that also helps us to know a little more about the operation of this "monitoring" system that will allow us to know if we have been exposed to someone infected by Coronavirus and therefore we may have contracted the infection.
In the screenshots that we see in the article, we are shown how when a person has been diagnosed You must confirm it in the application using a unique code with which you can verify that it is indeed a real infection and not from a misuse of the application. After filling in a series of data such as the date the test was performed and authorizing the application to check your most recent contacts, all those who have been a contact for this person will receive a notification to take the necessary precautions.
Not everyone who has crossed your path will receive that notification. Variables such as the proximity of the contact, the profession, the time during which the contact has been maintained and when it occurred will be assessed. With all these data, risk levels will be established that will serve to assess the real risk of these contacts., and only those who exceed a certain level will be notified. The application will also be able to notify the contacts of the contacts, according to the risk level of the first, as can be seen in this other image.
Apple has again made it clear that privacy is guaranteed. For example, the application will not be able to use our geolocation at any timeIt will not know where we have been or where the contact occurred, only that it occurred. The identity of the participants in this program will of course be anonymous, and it will be an application that can only be used by public health organizations. Apple's idea is that there is only one application per country, although it leaves the doors open for the application to be developed regionally instead of statewide.
In Spain we will not smell it because here they prefer to collect data, take away freedoms, sign people ...
I agree with Rafa in his comment.
In fact, in another article today, in which it is mentioned that France along with other countries appreciate the good work of two large technology companies such as Apple and Google but prefer to make their own application, I have also written the following:
Thinking wrong, and that does not mean at all that it is true or that the mentioned technology companies also spy, could it not be because Apple and Google have made an app that does not enter the privacy of people and is limited only to what what is Covid-19? Could it be that the countries that this app does not convince want something more intensive of citizen control in many more fields than health control?
And I would like to add more…. What if you don't have a smartphone? Okay, nowadays practically everyone has one, but what if you don't have one? Would they force you to buy one, even if you are unemployed or in an ERTE without charging anything and that expense was impossible because you hardly have to eat?
The idea of the countries that prefer to do theirs is that they have friends who are going to do it at much more expensive prices, taking the politician on duty with his corresponding commission, price increase, such as masks.