CORONA TRACKER ON IPHONE ANDROID
This record is only stored for 14 days before it is deleted (and users can manually delete records at any time before that point).Ĭontact tracing hinges on the fact that both Apple and Android users who have enrolled in the program can, at any point, report that they've tested positive for COVID-19. If you're in public, other phones will be listening and trading their beacons with yours, creating a record when two people "cross" each other's paths, so to speak. People who enroll in digital contact tracing will enable their phones to send out an invisible beacon routinely throughout the day, "a string of random numbers that aren't tied to a user's identity" per Apple. The entire system is based on Bluetooth capabilities, across devices made by Apple or Android. Early data collected by the Alan Turing Institute at Oxford University overseas in England suggests that 600,000 cases have been "prevented by the app" since its launch in September 2020.īut how does the digital contact tracing program work exactly, and what data are tech companies collecting? Apple iOS updates in September, for example, included rollouts for back-end capability for "Exposure Notifications" to most iPhones, per Forbes depending on where you live, state health departments may already be working in conjunction with these tech giants in your area.Īn Apple representative tells Good Housekeeping that participation in states is trending upwards in California, over 30% of adults have opted into exposure notifications, and in Washington D.C., 53% of the nation capitol's residents have enabled the program as well.
But the contact tracing programs have slowly rolled out in states individually across the nation throughout late 2020, and many smartphone users are just now being prompted to sign up for the first time. Last year, tech giants Apple and Google teamed up to create features that would enable Americans to enroll in digital novel coronavirus contact tracing programs with iPhone and Android devices.
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