For all the controversy over decentralized contact-tracing apps, data show that these privacy-preserving tools saved thousands of lives during the pandemic. National and international authorities must invest in the technology now.
  • ReallyActuallyFrankensteinEnglish
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    2 years ago

    What government/country was this, out of curiosity? I thought the whole point of the local-storage-only approach was protecting privacy, so curious how it could be used in investigations.

    • MoonlitSanguine@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Australia. Government funded apps, not the Google/iOS implementation. It’s been a few years so I was a bit confused on the details. It is not stored locally which is how it was used.