Contact Tracing: The Most Amazing And Scariest Technology of The 21st Century
Our phone, Bluetooth and contact tracing could rebuild our economy and save lives
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6 min readApr 11, 2020
Please note, this is a quick analysis of the Google specification, and not a deep dive yet.
A while back I posted an article about the usage of Bluetooth beacons, and how LinkedIn could find out who you had been in contact with. In fact, at a recently conference, I demonstrated it live and where I showed these beacons being sent out, and how these could be used to find out our contact. I often joked at conference that “you’ll see my contact on LinkedIn tomorrow, as they know we’ve been in contact”, and often I received emails back saying that it was true.
And so in this way, a social network could determine the places you had visited, and also the people you had been in contact with, without you…
