Open-source contact tracing, part 2
Open-source contact tracing, part 2
[Development] Posted Jul 20, 2020 16:02 UTC (Mon) by mrybczyn
Contact tracing is a way to help prevent the spread of a disease, such as COVID-19, by identifying an infected person's contacts so that they can be informed of the infection risk. In the first part of this series, we introduced open-source contact-tracing applications developed in response to the current pandemic, and described how they work. In this part, we look into the details of some of them, of both centralized and decentralized design. These application projects have all released their source code, but they differ in the implementation details, licenses used, and whether they accept user requests or patches. We conclude with the controversies around the tracing applications and the responses to them.