DANGEROUS - DO NOT USE – Citizen SafePass Review

Dangerous and irresponsible are words that come to mind with this app. The app doesn’t implement the joint google/apple exposure notification api but instead opts to create its own competing network of contact tracing when the focus should be to get as many people on the more mature, more widely used, and more robust solution already out. This app relies on you and everyone you know keeping the app open so that it can transmit over Bluetooth for the core functionality which seems prone to user and technical error. As a result many people (over a million apparently) will download this app in the false belief that it will help them, and give people a false sense of security. If you want a good contact tracing solution please go into the Settings app on your iPhone, scroll down to Exposure Notifications, and click from there to find an app in your area that implements the joint Apple/Google api. You could maybe use this app in addition to that but not in lieu of and the fact that the developers don’t enforce that in the app is dangerous and irresponsible.
Review by aforty on Citizen SafePass.