The Contact Tracing App Explainer

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s a national effort</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">underway</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">to get people to download what’s known</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">as a</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">contact tracing app. To help listeners understand why they’re so important, Eat Move Think host Shaun Francis talks to the University of Waterloo math PhD candidate who pioneered the “decentralized Bluetooth exposure notification” technology that started it all—James Petrie, the director of research at</span> <a href="http://covid-watch.org"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Covid Watch</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. Also featuring an interview with Florian Kerschbaum, the director of the University of Waterloo’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute. Visit</span> <a href= "https://www.eatmovethinkpodcast.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">eatmovethinkpodcast.com</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">for complete show notes. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Mentioned in this episode:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">James Petrie’s co-founder in Covid Watch is Tina White. Here’s her</span> <a href= "https://hai.stanford.edu/people/tina-white"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">profile at Stanford</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>