Reply to post: Re: And the non-centralised approach

Academics: We hate to ask, but could governments kindly refrain from building giant data-slurping, contact-tracing coronavirus monsters?

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Re: And the non-centralised approach

> if my phone detects that I walked passed a railway line and somebody on the train flagged as positive

No it won't. You need to have received two successive beacon tokens from the other person's phone for you to be considered to have been in contact. The suggestion is that they will be generated at whatever the current "close contact" time is, around 15 mins.

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