Privacy-compatible automated contact tracing
If you are following the news, you may have heard about Contact Tracing and how it can help us contain communicable diseases such as COVID-19. Essentially, contact tracing is the process of manually identifying and closely monitoring those in close contact with people that have been diagnosed with an infectious disease. It is commonly performed for diseases such as tuberculosis and measles and it can help by: Breaking transmission chains Notifying contacts of a potential infection Enabling early testing and treatment of vulnerable contacts However, the large volumes of COVID-19 cases and the speed at which the disease spreads make it difficult to perform accurate and timely contact tracing manually....