I was joking with co-workers about the use of ankle bracelets for such purposes, but as it turns out some countries and companies are already mandating the equivalents!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/bracelets-beacons-barcodes-wearables-global-response-covid-19 https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/18/the-technologies-the-world-is-using-to-track-coronavirus-and-people/ Aryt On Fri, Aug 7, 2020, 11:44 AM Yosem Companys <[email protected]> wrote: > From the article: > > Harvard began piloting Tracefi — a Wi-Fi-based contact tracing system — > this past Friday in preparation for freshmen and a select group of > upperclassmen students’ return to campus later this month. > > Tracefi uses the signals phones, laptops, and tablets constantly emit to > Harvard’s Wi-Fi infrastructures to gather three pieces of information: a > datetime stamp, the signal strength received by Harvard’s Wi-Fi > infrastructure, and the MAC address of the mobile device. The system then > stores the data for up to 28 days. > > Harvard will use the Tracefi data to aid contract tracing efforts run by > Harvard University Health Services and Harvard University Information > Technology by providing information to human contact tracers about the > specific whereabouts of infected individuals. > > > https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/8/2/tracefi-wifi-contract-tracing-coronavirus/ > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major > commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you > moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, > change to digest mode, or change password by emailing > [email protected].
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