Colombia has removed the contact-tracing feature in its official app for informing residents about the novel coronavirus after experiencing glitches, but aims to rebuild using potentially more reliable technology from Apple and Google
- Colombia has removed the contact-tracing feature in its official app for informing residents about the novel coronavirus after experiencing glitches, but aims to rebuild using potentially more reliable technology from Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google, a government official told Reuters.
But some governments that planned to forge ahead with such apps without the help of the American technology giants have been forced to reverse course. The head of Australia’s contact-tracing app told senators on Tuesday his team is moving to the Apple-Google technology over a glitchy internal solution, and the government agency behind the U.K.
“There have certainly been several lessons learned in this process,” Colombia presidential adviser Victor Munoz told Reuters.The Colombian government had felt well on its way with its CoronApp, which had been downloaded by 4.3 million people as of May 2 and also includes features to report symptoms and see where cases are located on a map.Apple and Google, the leading makers of smartphone operating systems, allow government contact tracing apps to bypass their technology.
Colombia needed a better way to “minimize the risk of generating unnecessary alerts” and decided to align CoronApp with the Apple-Google technology instead, Munoz added.“It’s very important to us that we evaluate any alternative that can help the government make better decisions,” Munoz said.Randall Brugeaud, chief executive of Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency, said on Tuesday that the country’s COVIDSafe app increasingly struggles to log encounters the longer an iPhone remains locked.
“We’ve talked to a pro sports team, companies in the food supply chain, a car dealership, nonprofits,” said Jamison Day, founder of Safe2, an app that uses HypeLabs’ technology to enable exposure notification.
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