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The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source

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Re: The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source

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Honestly Covid tracing seems fairly moot at this point. With tens of thousands of people marching in the streets every night, aren’t we all basically exposed if we’re part of any network?

America is not the world !

It has spread to at least Paris and Amsterdam. Including the looting.

Re: The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source

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Has anyone done an analysis of the various open source government contract tracing app? I’d love to read some tear down/code review articles on what each country has released.

Australia’s code is also open source.

https://github.com/AU-COVIDSafe

Re: The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source

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Has anyone done an analysis of the various open source government contract tracing app? I’d love to read some tear down/code review articles on what each country has released.

Australia’s code is also open source. https://github.com/AU-COVIDSafe

It's not under an open source license, though. Any idea why?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

America is not the world !

Rather bizarrely there are street protests about George Floyd in Europe too.

how is it bizarre? people naturally want to show solidarity with the cause in the US, it's a massive deal for the whole western world.

Re: The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source

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Has anyone done an analysis of the various open source government contract tracing app? I’d love to read some tear down/code review articles on what each country has released.

Australia’s code is also open source. https://github.com/AU-COVIDSafe

Curious, is there any traceability to verify the published code is what’s published to the app now or with updates?

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3) Germany : https://github.com/corona-warn-app (no discussion to be found at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23376682 )

Looks nice! Why is "SAP" holding the copyright? In Italy, the government acquired the copyright of the app (it was donated by the company that won the tender to develop it).

SAP and Deutsche Telekom -- two large IT corporations -- are the main developers. I don't know why the government doesn't hold the copyright, maybe it should. They've released it as free software, though (Apache license).

Re: The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source

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post #9

Honestly Covid tracing seems fairly moot at this point. With tens of thousands of people marching in the streets every night, aren’t we all basically exposed if we’re part of any network?

Contact tracing is exactly the kind of tool that would help track outbreaks from protests. Unfortunately in the US we have almost no contact tracing going on. It is unclear how bad the spread from protests will be since protesters are outside and often wear masks, and the density of protesters can vary greatly. I haven't read of documented super spreader events that occurred exclusively outdoors, it would be great sc…

* no mobile contact tracing - lots of actual.

I'm not sure how much the mobile protocols would even help in protests. Don't you need proximity with someone for 30 minutes or so to be tagged a contact?

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