{"id":1010,"date":"2020-08-14T00:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T00:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2022-03-24T22:10:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T22:10:57","slug":"a-glimpse-from-the-future-customers-will-be-asked-for-their-covid-19-tracking-app-in-public-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/a-glimpse-from-the-future-customers-will-be-asked-for-their-covid-19-tracking-app-in-public-places\/","title":{"rendered":"A Glimpse Into the Future : Customers Will Be Asked for Their Covid-19 Tracking App in Public Places"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you’re not familiar with the Covid-19 tracking app, you should learn that all smartphones, whether Android or Apple varieties, have silently installed a special Covid-19 tracking app, which is more or less dormant<\/a>, depending on whom you’re choosing to believe.<\/p>\n However, this is not enough apparently, as pubs, restaurants and cafes in the United Kingdom will start asking customers to activate their Covid-19 tracking app. For now, this new standard is not mandatory (yet), but optional; however, if businesses will start refusing service to non-compliant customers, in order to “serve and protect” the general public, this rule will be just as good as a mandatory\/government enforced rule.<\/p>\n According to a Daily Mail<\/a> piece, the pilot “customer tracking” programs is going to be launched on the Isle of Wight initially, among volunteers and alongside other (undisclosed) location. Here’s from the article:<\/p>\n The public will be\u00a0urged\u00a0to scan barcodes at pubs, cafes and restaurants to provide a \u2018virtual diary\u2019 of their recent movements.<\/p>\n If another customer in a venue at about the same time tests positive for the virus, the phone owner will be alerted and encouraged to isolate for 14 days and book a test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The initial Covid-19 tracking app that was tried and failed miserably was using Bluetooth to create a log of sorts of the smartphones nearby, in what is now described as a flawed design. The new app is crafted by Google and Apple and it still relies on Bluetooth technology, but unlike the older app that was designed by a government entity, it is hoped that the private sector will do a better job. Here’s another quote from the article:<\/p>\n This time round, the app has the addition of bar code scanning so that users can receive notifications via the app of outbreaks at venues.<\/p>\n The app will also tell people roughly how many times they have been in close contact with someone who has the app \u2013 even if they are not infected.<\/p>\n They can then\u00a0modify their behaviour<\/strong>\u00a0and observe better social distancing to further reduce their infection risk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n