Source Code of Covid Tracker Ireland App Goes Global With Linux Project (siliconrepublic.com) 30
The Linux Foundation Public Health initiative has chosen the Covid Tracker Ireland app as one of its first two open-source Covid-19 projects. From a report: Since its launch, more than 1.3m people have downloaded the Covid Tracker Ireland app, which was developed to help track the future spread of the coronavirus. Now, the app has been chosen as one of the first two open-source contact-tracing projects by the newly established Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) initiative. Nearform, the Waterford-based company that developed the app with the HSE, has been made one of the initiative's seven premium members, along with Cisco, Doc.ai, Geometer, IBM, Tencent and VMware. Under the project name 'Covid Green', the source code of the Irish app is being made available for other public health authorities and their developers across the world to use and customise. As part of the agreement, Nearform will manage the source code repository on GitHub. In its announcement, the LFPH pointed to the "extraordinarily high" adoption rate of the Covid Tracker Ireland app.
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We are risk taking, freedom loving country. Having someone track your movements no matter how just the cause is against everything we stand for. It will eventually(months or years from now) be abused by someone in power. This is a given. We would simply rather take the risk than give up our freedoms. If people want a safe space with no risk, they can check themselves into a nice institution with padded walls.
-- says America as they share all of their movements with Google, Facebook and Apple.
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Re: Awesome app (Score:2)
Em... That app doesn't track your movements. It doesn't even ask for location permissions on your phone. It's completly decentralised and exposes zero information about you. Except, and only if you decide to share it with the health service, your phone number.
Everything else is completely anonymous, non-tracked, and decentralised.
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So I take it you don't carry a cell phone?
It's a very slick app (Score:2)
I'm concerned about the privacy implications (Score:2)
I like the idea but I'm concerned about the privacy implications. What rights do we have to privacy with these apps?
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The app:
does not collect your name, age or address
does not hold your phone number unless you choose to share it
cannot be used to track your location
cannot be used to check if you should be self-isolating
can only access information on your phone that you choose to allow
cannot be used to identify your close contacts
cannot be used to identify people who have tested positive for coronavi
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If it can't track location, just what the fuck is it sending to the central server?
How does it know who you've had contact with?
If it's a contact tracker that "can't identify close contacts" then just what the hell is it doing?
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Anonymized location data is used by the system to send you an alert when you have been in proximity to someone, also anonymous, who tested positive.
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It cannot be used [by anyone] to track _your_ location
Just the central authority. of course. And the admins in charge of IT at the central authority. All those who can bribe the admins. Cops with warrants. Hackers. Criminals, and HOLY SHIT have you thought about the security aspect of this AT ALL?
Anonymized LOCATION data? How does that work? Most anonymized data [techcrunch.com] is bullshit. Location though? Double bullshit. If it sends location data, it needs to at the very least know the location of other people in the same location. So the location is... what? the g
Code for German app (Score:3)
https://github.com/corona-warn... [github.com]
@BoJo this will get you started...
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For which this app would be a solution. The correct problem definition, though is:
Re: Slahdot loves promoting and implementing slave (Score:2)
I had an amalgam filling in a deciduous molar, that did occasionally receive radio signals. I was an avid shortwave radio listener, and the signals were familiar. I was not quite capable of copying Morse code at the time, so the mind control part probably failed. It was installed not by flying saucer aliens, but by a dentist who was a family friend.
Re: Slahdot loves promoting and implementing slave (Score:2)
Trying reading up about what the app does and how it does it.
Then come back and apologise for your bullshit post.
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Too late (Score:2)
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Not really. The numbers are in a good place, at the moment. But Covid-19 hasn't gone away. In the UK the Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently claimed that the country will be back to normal by Christmas. But his own senior health advisors quickly contradicted him [independent.co.uk], pointing out that it's critical to maintain the defensive measures like social distancing, contact tracing, and follow-up testing to avoid a second wave of Covid-19 infections.
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The main purpose of the app is the keep the virus at bay. Yes, we've done a great job in getting the numbers down. We now need to keep them that way.
That's what the app will do.
Italians meanwhile... (Score:2)
...made their app open-source months ago: https://github.com/immuni-app [github.com]
The Swiss app is also on github (Score:2)
The official Swiss app "SwissCovid" is also on github:
https://github.com/DP-3T/dp3t-... [github.com]
https://github.com/DP-3T/docum... [github.com]
etc.
Australian app source code (Score:2)
https://github.com/AU-COVIDSaf... [github.com]