Instead of making the lives of contact tracers easier, analysis shows the expensive technology missed contacts and added to their workload.
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Bluetooth wireless communication makes it possible to track when people have been exposed to people infected with the coronavirus. The right cryptography scheme keeps alerts about exposures private.
New Zealand has joined a long list of countries using Google and Apple’s mobile contact tracing framework. But if it’s not compatible with Australia’s app, what does that mean for travellers?
Download rates have been disappointing and people aren’t following self-isolation warnings.
Address data are maintained in silos at different government entities. There is limited coordination and adherence to international standards; good practice is lacking around information management.
The state government has enlisted a US software company to deploy a data management system that will speed up contact tracing. But security could be a hitch.
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne; Senior Research Fellow, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Epidemiology, UNSW Sydney
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Executive Dean, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University, RMIT University
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Senior Research Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in Computer Science/Co-founder Women Leading in AI, Keele University
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Principal Researcher, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Lecturer in Information and Communication Technologies, CQUniversity Australia
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Doctoral student in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
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Associate Dean, Digital Health & Informatics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, University of Pretoria
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Researcher in Geospatial Science, Pr. Sci. Nat., Gauteng City-Region Observatory
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Senior Research Fellow, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
