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Technology and apps against the coronavirus in China, Korea and Spain
Although the critical phase of the coronavirus seems to have passed in our country (I hope so), the fight against the virus continues. At this stage, prevention and, above all, monitoring of the infected are very important. In imitation of China and Korea, which started very early with monitoring and prevention applications such as Corona 100m, in Spain, official organizations and private companies have also begun developing technology solutions and applications against the coronavirus. We'll tell you something.
China was a pioneer
in using these types of apps, but you should also think that this is not an
ordinary country in terms of civil liberties, so it is easier to control the
population with technology.
China and South
Korea Coronavirus Claims.
First, these are
applications for determining the location of the infected. Corona 100m is one
of the first South Korean geofencing applications. That is, something like
putting a virtual fence around a point. Thus, the number of places where the
possibility of infection can exist (based on official information) is limited,
and the user can avoid this. Other similar apps are Corona Map or Corona Alert.
The data is taken from the Korean Health Service, so these apps do not work in
other countries.
In China, the
Yixiaosou app, the downloader for the WeChat ("Chinese WhatsApp")
messaging app, allows you to examine the environment to see if they are more or
less safe, depending on the number of those infected. Companies are asking
employees to show infected people near their home to give them access to their
facilities.
To find out where
the most likely areas of infection are, another step is also to use utilities
that allow you to first collect information from those infected and then track
them. The app, which appeared very early in China, allows a user to be
color-coded by scanning a QR code based on information available to the Chinese
authorities. Green means that a person is healthy and can move freely. Yellow
means 7 days of quarantine, red means 14 days.
On the other hand,
several Chinese government organizations have gone further by developing an
application to detect close contact with infected people. To do this, users
must enter their phone number, name and personal identification number
("Chinese DNI") in the application. User data is provided by health
and transport authorities, which also receive information from citizens through
monitoring.
If we combine this
with a society like China, where individual freedoms are more limited and users
are obliged to provide information to the state, we have a lot of control over
the population. This type of application has been criticized for sending
personal and confidential information to the Chinese authorities without much
protection.
Finally, the most
invasive method is an artificial intelligence program from the Hong Kong
company SenseTime, which detects people's faces with 99% efficiency in just 0.3
seconds. This system is used by the Chinese government for its network of video
surveillance of citizens using cameras. It is so effective that masks are not a
problem for identifying people.
Spain Coronavirus
Claims
In Western
societies, applications must comply with all rules regarding personal data.
Europe has some of the strictest regulations in this regard (GDPR). Therefore,
all applications have forms prepared so that the user knows that they provide
personal and in many cases confidential data (all medical data are confidential
data):
Government filings
against coronavirus
COVID-19 Assistance
is an app of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Digital Transformation. He
currently operates only in the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile-La Mancha,
Extremadura, the Balearic Islands and Mercia. Its purpose is for users to
provide their health data, the app can also track their location and, on the
other hand, offer advice and warnings about the coronavirus in the communities
where it works. Also under development is COVID radar, an infection monitoring
service that will work by connecting to other phones via Bluetooth and a COVID-19
infection notification system, but for now it will be a pilot phase in July in
San Sebastian de la. Slingshot.
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