QZqzervaas·Apr 27, 2020
I’m building one here, using a mock implementation of Apple’s framework based on their documentation:
https://github.com/CrunchyBagel/TracePrivately/
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CrunchyBagel / TracePrivately
TracePrivately
A privacy-focused app using Apple's soon-to-be-released contact tracing framework.
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What it is
A privacy-focused app using Apple's soon-to-be-released contact tracing framework.
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Observed mentions: 2020-04-18 08:57:11 UTC to 2020-04-27 12:09:15 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Apr 18 | 2020-04-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-19 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Apr 19 | 2020-04-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Apr 20 | 2020-04-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 21 | 2020-04-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 22 | 2020-04-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 23 | 2020-04-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 24 | 2020-04-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 25 | 2020-04-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 26 | 2020-04-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27 | 2020-04-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesA quick scan of the linked project suggests no such healthcare provider code is required. The source[1] suggests the flow is literally: "I Have COVID-19" -> "Are You Sure?" -> "Click OK", and that's that.
Anyways, I take this project to be a proof of concept. One would hope that governments will have healthcare professionals replacing the self-diagnosis step. * hope *
[1] https://github.com/CrunchyBagel/TracePrivately/blob/master/T...
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