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- Soon there will be an official app that uses this system in Spain and other countries around the world
- This system informs you when you have been in contact with a COVID19 positive
Apple and Google are working together on a new way to prevent COVID19 In fact, they have finished the tool to detect people with COVID19 and we would like to tell you how it will work. The platform in question will help detect positives using the Bluetooth of your mobile and completely anonymously. In short, it will tell you if you are near, or have been, people with COVID19 without telling you who is the infected person next to you.
The first version is already ready, although not yet implemented.It will offer different notifications to users and will work depending on which country you are in, as not all regulations are the same. Apple and Google will provide an API so that developers can implement this system in their apps. Only one developer per country will be able to use this API, that is, there will only be one official app of this system in each nation. They also clarify that in pluralistic nations, like ours, they could make distinctions. Developers, despite what you might think, will not be able to access phone location services for privacy and security reasons.
Soon there will be an official app that uses this system in Spain and other countries around the world
At first it will only be possible to receive these alerts through an app but later you can even receive them on mobiles that do not have the application installed Of course, the user's consent will be needed in most countries to activate the system. The application (or the system) will work in the background, it consumes almost no battery and the user will not have to do anything.
If someone has COVID19, the information can be added to the app (it must be done voluntarily) so that the app warns those who have been nearbyof this in the last 14 days. In this way, it will be possible to know who are those people who have been close to a positive. The app may also ask for a verification code, given by he althcare personnel, to prevent people from entering false positives into the app.
This system informs you when you have been in contact with a COVID19 positive
Users or people who have been near someone infected will receive a notification with a list of dates and times they were infected made. Moreover, this will allow you to know if it has been indoors, outdoors, etc. All these things will serve to know if we have really been at risk or not and will also give us he alth recommendations if the developer implements this function in the app.
To work, the system generates a random key every 10 or 20 minutes that is issued via Bluetooth and collects random keys from otherswith this function enabled. And if someone infected suddenly appears, the system notifies those people who have received the key without any type of personal information. The phones will exchange this information privately and notify users.
The system will work in a decentralized way but it will be necessary to see if the governments manage to implement it in a fair and transparent way for the usersSome countries are preferring to centralize the use of this type of system. The good thing about this tool developed by Google and Apple is that it will work globally. This means that, regardless of the system used by the user, it will allow us to know if throughout the world we have come across someone with COVID19 in the last 15 days. It will help not to spread the disease if the app is used correctly and it will not identify any specific user. Here you can see all the images of this new app.
