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Italy Tests Contact-Tracing App to Speed Lockdown Exit
- mytailorisrich 6y agoApparently 60% of the population should use these apps in order for them to be effective, which turns into 80% of smartphone users. In Singapore the uptake of the TraceTogether app has only been 12%of the population, and the city ended up in lockdown anyway. Making those apps opt-in, i.e. optional, is taking a big risk. At the same time deploying a system that works at such scale in such short time isn't easy. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52294896 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52294896