COVID-19 contact tracing: Canadian company says authorities not interested in app that could help with virus

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The idea was pioneered by Asian countries that have had success combatting the virus, and now it’s being implemented across Europe

The international consensus is growing: one of the keys to containing the COVID-19 pandemic and reviving a comatose world economy is a novel type of technology.

Most provinces that LivNao contacted failed to respond. Leung has heard that B.C. is worried about the privacy-related optics of the idea; Ontario actually had a virtual meeting with the Vancouver-based start-up, but did not seem in a great hurry to proceed, Leung says. But, said CEO Geoff Rotstein, “like any business trying to get something pushed, people always wish things would happen faster, things would happen sooner.”

But as the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading rapidly, and its potential dire consequences were underscored by the experience of countries like Italy and Spain, Canada and other countries urged most people to stay at home, a largely unprecedented public-health response. Given the speed with which the SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads, “traditional manual contact tracing procedures are not fast enough,” said the Oxford University health-data researchers. “Delays in these interventions make them ineffective at controlling the epidemic.”

 

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Does government really care this much about people and there health ?. No ,the answer is the government want's to track and know exactly what your doing and when. This is sickining .Since when do we need government to keep us healthy i have never heard such stupidity.

Since when do we need government to keep us healthy i have never heard such stupidity.

Nope! I’d keep my purchased with my own money in a faradaybag The gov would have to issue a phone that would also be put in a faradaybag KnockOffTracking privacy

I read “Asian company” ...... nope. Yet GoC will do Huawei.

We allow companies to track our locations so they can sell us more stuff, but we don't want the government to track us to keep us safe.

Authorities in Canada & US are to politically correct to do this. The bottom of the barrel needs to be reached before the PC bureaucratic dickheads act.

Good!

No forced buying of smartphones!

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