[raphaelj]

The Apple+Google solution is technically very similar.

The main issue with contact tracers today is on iOS: Apple does not allow an application to perform a Bluetooth scan if the application is not on the screen and the phone unlocked. Apple and Google solution is thus to provide a tracing API that would allow such scanning capabilities if for contract tracing.

The details are not well known yet, so it's hard to say what will be the privacy issues. We don't know how the API will be implemented either, it could be totally opt-in if provided as a signed application instead of an OS update.

Really appreciate the remark about the README as English isn't my native language.

[yamoriyamori]

I am really surprised this didn't get more upvote/attention on ShowHN. Understood your project is facing massive headwinds with App store restrictions, but this is what tech/SW could be doing to help 'flatten the curve', and with data/privacy I'd hope there would have been a very robust discourse on the underlying tech for implementing contact tracing.

[raphaelj]

New discussion here: https://github.com/RaphaelJ/covid-tracer/blob/master/README....

[raphaelj]

Indeed ... I might try to repost it later this week.