联系人追踪APP并不是人们所希望的那种“灵丹妙药”

因为Covid-19病毒的大肆传播，各国政府开始思考可以用什么方法最有效的跟踪到这种致命病毒，联系人追踪APP似乎是一个很明智的解决方案。但现实是，无论哪个国家这种科技都没有完全成功。在法国，只有不到3%的人下载了StopCovid。英国错过了最佳推广时间，并没有在最初疫情肆虐的时候马上就推出。美国的追踪app推出时期却正是媒体陷讨论病毒传闻是真是假的时期。而澳大利亚的COVIDSafe虽然下载了600万次，但至今还没有在上面发现一例。唯一一个取得了些许成功的国家是中国，但也是因为当局规定这项技术是强制性的，并实施了其他地方可能无法接受的保护隐私措施。加拿大独立智库国际治理创新中心（Centre for International Governance Innovation）高级研究员Sean McDonald表示，联系人追踪app的价值“确实值得怀疑”。

As Covid-19 spread, sending almost every country into some form of lockdown, governments began to wonder how best to keep track of the deadly virus. Contact-tracing apps seemed a sensible solution. But everywhere you look, tech has failed to deliver. In France, less than 3% of the population has downloaded StopCovid. The U.K. missed an initial rollout deadline and has chosen to start over using another platform. Tracing apps in the U.S. have been caught in a social media war about whether virus news is real or fake, while Australia’s COVIDSafe hasn’t detected a single case despite 6 million downloads. The one nation with a modicum of success has been China, but only because authorities made the technology mandatory and imposed privacy practices that would be unacceptable elsewhere.
The value of contact-tracing apps is “really questionable,” says Sean McDonald, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, an independent think tank based in Canada.   source

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