UC Davis professor releases free Covid-19 contact-tracing app

A pair of computer scientists at the University of California Davis created a coronavirus contact-tracing app, designed to avoid raising privacy concerns. The free app, We-Care, allows users to check in at specific locations and notifies them if someone reporting themselves as positive for Covid-19 checks in at the same location within a time window. “The information supplied is all up to the user’s discretion. It is as customizable as the user wants it to be,” said Prasant Mohapatra, vice…