Google and Apple have reached an agreement to jointly develop an application to fight the coronavirus: it is a new system that will use Bluetooth to know if you are communicating with someone with a coronavirus; It will be available on Google and iOS, and the idea is based on the fact that registering coronavirus contacts with other healthy people is very important to be able to distinguish the following – according to Google, people are already shutting down at home, because emissions have dropped dramatically.
The idea is concrete that everyone has this app installed. When you go to a store or elsewhere, your phone will record who you are connected to because of Bluetooth. When two-way Bluetooth communicates, anonymous identifiers will be changed, stored on someone else's phone. This way, if in the following days or weeks one of those people tests for coronavirus and subscribes to the app, A notice will be sent to all the phones you spoke to, alerting them to the virus being opened to them..
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In this way, healthy people who have been a person with crowns can be placed unless necessary
If you contact someone who also has a coronavirus afterwards, you will know
Application It won't reach our phones until next month. And of course, neither Apple nor Google are developing the app itself, but the API – the application interface – has someone to improve the program. Perhaps the latter program is composed of universities, governments or companies or small developers. This will be the first phase of the launch of this exciting project.
But it doesn't matter if you have an app and someone else has a different app as long as these two apps are built under that API from Google and Apple. However, The effectiveness of this project is based on everyone downloading the program, activate Bluetooth every time they go out, and report to the app when they are tested for coronavirus. In addition, we have to keep in mind that the app cannot do anything for asymptomatic patients who do not know they are in good shape.
To help public health officials reduce the spread of # COVID19, Google & @Questions they work in a contact-oriented manner designed for strict controls and to protect the user's privacy. @tim_cook and I am willing to cooperate in these efforts.https: //t.co/T0j88YBcFu
– Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) April 10, 2020
In the case of contacting a person with COVID-19, we will receive a very similar message in the form of a notice, perhaps: «A person was recently diagnosed with COVID-19», In addition to providing more information on which symptoms of the disease can be disclosed for identification and information on what to do if we think we have been infected, something very similar to what Google did when searching for the word" coronavirus "or similar in a search engine.
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The second phase of the project will be to apply this same measure to Android and iOS calls.. Therefore, we will notice that we have been in touch with a wonderful person even if we have no application. If so, a notice will be sent to us and we will be asked to submit some requests to notify other contacts if we ever find that we have a future status.
However, everything that is known about stage two is temporary, and there are more questions than answers. However, it is undoubtedly a highly skilled project.
If at any time we test that we have and notify the app, our anonymous password will be uploaded to the servers. Once there, all other calls will check if any unknown keys are stored on your phone similar to the one available on the server; but because of this we should have only been in contact with that person 14 days ago
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What if someone decides to report being infected if they are not really? Or, but still, what would happen if a group of people deliberately decided to do this? At the same time, and we don't know if the app will give us any information on how long we've been exposed to that person, because it's not like we're close to him for the few minutes we've met for more than five minutes in a store – or elsewhere.
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