covidsafe
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COVIDSafe Tries to Indefinitely Connect to Every Device It’s Handshaked Thanks to Yet Another Bug
COVIDSafe is probably not the promised ‘sunscreen’ all Australians need to weather the coronavirus pandemic. It could still prove to be a useful tool to help health authorities with contact tracing efforts, but a new critical bug is undermining that. The bug affects Apple devices and was spotted by independent developer, Richard Nelson, who’s uncovered…
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Google’s Coronavirus Contact Tracing Setting Isn’t Tracking You
Last month Google and Apple officially announced their joint coronavirus contact tracing API. It’s called the Exposure Notification System and has been designed for contact tracing apps like COVIDSafe. It first appeared in Apple’s iOS 13.5 update and is now on Android too. But it’s not actually doing anything yet. The point of the Exposure…
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Victoria Accessed COVIDSafe Data 21 Times But Couldn’t Identify Any New Contacts
Victoria’s health authority has accessed data from the COVIDSafe app for 21 coronavirus cases but it is yet to identify a single contact manual tracers hadn’t already uncovered, Gizmodo Australia has learned.
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It’s Hard To Say If The COVIDSafe App Can Overcome Its Shortcomings
The Australian government’s contact-tracing app, COVIDSafe, has been touted as crucial for restarting the country’s economy and curbing COVID-19’s spread. But until more data are collected, it’s hard to estimate how effective the app will be. Nonetheless, there are some predictable situations in which COVIDSafe’s design may mean it will struggle to fulfil its purpose.