Levy, Jeremy and Levy, Akash
(2020)
Saving Zoë: Worldline self-monitoring can better limit the spread of diseases.
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Abstract
The emergence of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has sparked intense interest in the use of mobile phone technology to aid in contact tracing. We demonstrate, using a simple model of infectious transmission, that voluntary offering of a richer dataset—worldline information—can reveal transmission paths that are missed through contact tracing alone. This information can be captured securely by a mobile device and kept confidential, thus allowing individuals to weigh their personal privacy concerns against the benefits to society, and make their own decisions. Worldline self-monitoring has other benefits for the adopter that are unrelated to health concerns, which could aid in widespread adoption. Because each worldline contributes to a more comprehensive model of objective reality, independent platforms can contribute information without coordination, similar to the way that scientific knowledge is constructed.
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