contactTracing

As an Australian who has privacy concerns their government's COVIDSafe app (see https://github.com/vteague/contactTracing), and hence not installing it, I'm really thankful that Apple and Google are pushing this model of contact tracing. We still don't know if digital contact tracing is effective in practice, but it's still important to try, but we can do this in a way that avoids giving governments with worrying authoritarian tendencies another tool.

My understanding is that this is based on the Singapore government's TraceTogether app. Vanessa Teague has been blogging analysis about the Australian government's approach: https://github.com/vteague/contactTracing

The spec pdf looks a lot like the DP-3T protocol. The DP-3T docs have more explanation and a good discussion of privacy aspects. https://github.com/DP-3T/documents paper: https://github.com/DP-3T/documents/blob/master/DP3T%20White%... data protection aspects: https://github.com/DP-3T/documents/blob/master/DP3T%20-%20Da... Here's an overview comparing that approach to some others (such as Singapore's tracetogether): https://github.com/vteague/contactTracing