Timeline of contact tracing

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2003 September Science writer and sociologist Zeynep Tufekci writes a long piece in The Atlantic on the lack of attention by many public health authorities to the index of dispersion of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its implications for contact tracing.[1]
2007 "Digital contact tracing has existed as a concept since at least 2007,"[2][3]
2014 May 1 Digital contact tracing proves to be effective in the first empirical investigation using Bluetooth data.[4][5]
2018 A patent application by Facebook discusses a Bluetooth proximity-based trust method.[6]
2020 April 10 Apple and Google, who account for most of the world's mobile operating systems at the time, announce COVID-19 apps for iOS and Android.[7]
2020 April 20 It is reported that over 300 academics signed a statement favouring decentralised proximity tracing applications over centralized models, given the difficulty in precluding centralised options being used "to enable unwarranted discrimination and surveillance."[8][9] In a centralized model, a central database records the ID codes of meetings between users. In a decentralized model, this information is recorded on individual phones, with the role of the central database being limited to identifying phones by their ID code when an alert needs to be sent.[10]
2020 October German virologist Christian Drosten calls on all citizens of Germany to maintain a diary of their close contacts, in order to facilitate backward tracing and thus help contact tracing teams to find disease clusters.[11]
2020 December 3 "Delta partners with CDC for international traveler contact tracing"[12]

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  1. "This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic". theatlantic.com. Retrieved 3 December 2020. 
  2. Bahri, Shamshul (2007-01-01). "Enhancing quality of data through automated SARS contact tracing method using RFID technology". International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations. 4 (2): 145–162. ISSN 1470-9503. doi:10.1504/IJNVO.2007.013540. 
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  4. Farrahi, Katayoun; Emonet, Rémi; Cebrian, Manuel (2014-05-01). "Epidemic Contact Tracing via Communication Traces". PLOS ONE. 9 (5): e95133. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...995133F. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4006791Freely accessible. PMID 24787614. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095133. 
  5. "Digital contact tracing might be our best shot". 
  6. "Proximity-based trust". patents.google.com. Retrieved 4 December 2020. 
  7. "Apple and Google building coronavirus tracking tech for iOS and Android, coming in May". cnet.com. Retrieved 4 December 2020. 
  8. "Contact Tracing Joint Statement". Retrieved 2020-04-23. 
  9. Hern, Alex (2020-04-20). "Digital contact tracing will fail unless privacy is respected, experts warn". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 4 December 2020. 
  10. "COVID-19". Data notes. Retrieved 4 December 2020. 
  11. Scharpenberg, Jan (2020-10-13). "Drosten fordert Corona-Tagebuch zur besseren Kontaktnachverfolgung". www.waz.de. Retrieved 4 December 2020. 
  12. "Delta partners with CDC for international traveler contact tracing". usatoday.com. Retrieved 4 December 2020.