Digital Contact Tracing: Helping Flatten the COVID-19 Curve
With the coronavirus pandemic still affecting most countries globally, researchers advocate for the use of digital contact tracing as a means to reduce the spread of the virus. Private Kit: Safe Paths, is an app developed by the MIT Media Lab with Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at the lead. This app boasts of being able to perform digital contact tracing while protecting the privacy of persons. It has been speculated that the app might be integrated with Waze for COVID-19, an official WHO app that is also new to the market. Below, we discuss the benefits and disadvantages of…