Seoul’s Radical Experiment in Digital Contact Tracing (Q4515)
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article published by the New Yorker on April 17, 2020
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Seoul’s Radical Experiment in Digital Contact Tracing
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article published by the New Yorker on April 17, 2020
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When a patient tests positive here, the health team retraces their movements based on their oral testimony, and then combs through relevant C.C.T.V. footage in order to locate others who might have been exposed
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Health authorities, with the approval of the police and other supervising agencies, can make use of cell-phone G.P.S. data, credit-card payment information, and travel and medical records. The government has also a data-analysis platform that automates the process, allowing investigators to get clearance and pull up patient trajectories in under a minute.
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17 April 2020
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