What is Contact Tracing? Here’s What You Need to Know
As the threat of COVID-19 infections fades, contact tracing will become increasingly important in assisting nations, countries, and enterprises in reopening. Many people, however, are unclear about what contact tracing includes and the privacy consequences of having their interactions with others recorded. Everbridge Chief Technology Officer Imad Mouline clarified some common myths about the process and outlined the fundamental capabilities that a comprehensive contact tracing system should have in a presentation at "Coronavirus: The Road to Recovery," a virtual symposium hosted by Everbridge late last month. A young man at a workplace has a briefcase and a medical mask on his hand. Touch tracing is a collection of strategies and systems that allow people and organisations to document and alert others who have come into contact with anything that might infect them. Because interaction is banned by fiat during total lockdowns, the procedure is rarely used. However, once the ...