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May 1, 2020 09:50 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZSAQ4hDvDLM/the-new-united-nations-coronavirus-social-distancing-app-doesnt-even-work
The New United Nations Coronavirus Social Distancing App Doesn't Even Work
This week a division of the United Nations announced its new social distancing app designed to help alert people when they get too close to another person during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Motherboard has found that the app, called 1point5, is barely functional, and an independent researcher highlighted how the app may be largely ineffective due to how it informs users when they are near any other device which uses Bluetooth, rather than only mobile phones, which a human is presumably carrying in their pocket. From the report: The news highlights the haphazard roll-out of various different apps and technologies that are supposed to help during the pandemic, including those from governments. "1point5 will measure distance to other phones and devices as long as the Bluetooth of those phones is turned on. Those other phones do not need to have the app installed for the app to detect their presence," the press release from the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs (UNTIL), published Wednesday, reads. When users download 1point5, the app is supposed to alert them when another Bluetooth device comes within 1.5 metres of their own phone, or a user can choose to increase the range slightly. The app is then supposed to display a message saying "Please keep your distance" if it detects other nearby devices. But when Motherboard downloaded the app earlier this week before the UN's official announcement, the app didn't even successfully perform this most basic of actions. Motherboard tested the app on two separate Android devices, and held them next to other phones with Bluetooth enabled. The app did not detect any other devices in either test.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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