Interview - Fighting COVID-19 with Contact tracing apps featuring NearForm Head of Product Conor O'Neill
NearForm is the developer behind Ireland's Covid Tracker app, one of the first launched using the Google Apple Exposure Notification (GAEN) APIs, and is the first developer to launch apps in multiple countries. Head of Product Conor O'Neill discusses the privacy protections of this app approach, the challenge of getting a huge portion of a population to adopt the apps, and what's coming next in the effort to turn smartphones into a warning system for COVID-19 exposure.