OM 12: 10 pm to 1 pm I was close enough to you that our phones were talking. The 10-
minute example is something like standing behind someone in line at a coffee shop. The 50 …

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, technology enthusiasts have pushed for digital
contact tracing as a critical tool for breaking the COVID-19 transmission chains. Motivated by …

In response to the current Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, many countries are
developing digital strategies for the identification of individuals who have been in contact …

The current COVID-19 pandemic is a deadly crisis, but also an opportunity to pull together
as a society. Regrettably, it's also an opportunity for would-be authoritarians and powerful …

Digital contact tracing has emerged as a viable tool supplementing manual contact tracing.
To date, more than 100 contact tracing applications have been published to slow down the …

The global outbreak of COVID-19 has led to focus on efforts to manage and mitigate the
continued spread of the disease. One of these efforts include the use of contact tracing to …

As pandemic wide spread results in locking down vital facilities, digital contact tracing is
deemed as a key for re-opening. However, current efforts in digital contact tracing, running …

Digital contact tracing applications (CTAs) have been one of the most widely discussed
technical methods of controlling the COVID-19 outbreak. The effectiveness of this …

Recent modelling studies have shown that timely isolation of contacts can be effective in
reducing the COVID-19 reproduction rate [1]. The epidemiological features of COVID-19 put …

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COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | NOVEMBER 2020 | VOL. 63 | NO. 11 viewpoints Digital …