players and personnel who have tested positive since September, including an outbreak among the Tennessee Titans, said Dr. Thom Mayer, the medical director of the N.F.L. The system is particularly helpful in ruling out people who spent less than 15 minutes near infected colleagues, he added. Dr. Chris Klenck, the head team physician at the University of Tennessee, said the proximity data helped teams understand when the athletes spent more than 15 minutes close together. “We’re able to tabulate that data, and from that information we can help identify people who are close contacts to someone who’s positive,” Dr. Klenck said. And they say these data-mining risks could disproportionately affect certain workers or students, like undocumented immigrants or political activists.

Source: International New York Times November 15, 2020 23:03 UTC