Mit Proposes Bluetooth Tracking To Fight Coronavirus
Despite being adopted in several places around the world, this type of tracking raises privacy concerns, an issue raised in the United States. Now, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT has proposed a solution to the problem inspired by Apple’s “Search iPhone” function to find lost devices. The system works as follows: when sending random numbers constantly via Bluetooth, as it is a low-range signal present on most devices and shared only with relatively close people, it is possible that, when covid-19 is confirmed, a list of these numbers, sent in the previous 14 days, is checked....