Usual places awarness

[vpaulino]

With the concent of the user, and explicit settings from the user this application should maintain population density about popular locations in the city where the person is. With this the application shoud raise notifications to the person saying the places that he should avoid and the places that are safe

[jaxxibae]

This does make sense, but it takes away A LOT of privacy from people, and I'm not so sure if I'd like to be tracked every day for a public available map of "hot regions".

Plus, I think Google doesn't accept SNE apps that actually track their users' locations.

[vpaulino]

You do not need to send information that identifies the user with the location. You just need to count distinct people in each location and have the counter updated to be readed.
When the app starts he will download the hot spots that the user wants to know, not reading the location from the gps.
Person 1 arrives location 1(Post increment) => ++1
Person 2 arrives location 1(Post increment)=> ++1
When they leave if should decrement.
Person 3 On is cell phone he will receive a category level of all hot places calculated by the backend regarding the cities and hotspots the user as explicitly requested. The backend is responsable to have the value available so any client app can query that.

[fmaia]

The proposed solution implies access to location services at least for identification of "location 1",etc. There is no plan whatsoever for the application to have any access to geographic information. This would raise multiple issues with respect to the user's privacy and data protection. STAYAWAY COVID was built to rely on BLE exactly to avoid any access to GPS or other location service.

Please consider closing this issue.

[vpaulino]

Even if the location information does not leave the phone it is still considered a privacy issue?

[jaxxibae]

Both Google and Apple don't allow apps that use the Exposure Notification System to track locations at all, so yes, it'll still be a privacy issue.