A Coronavirus Tracking App Created By A KC-based Startup, Is About To Be Endorsed By The White House.

Private Kit: Safe Paths is a free app designed to track its user’s locations should they test positive for Coronavirus. The app was created by the members of TripleBlind, a Kansas City-based startup and Digital Sandbox company that provides data privacy in various markets, along with the help of many other developers from around the globe.

TripleBlind enables companies to safely provide and consume data and algorithms in encrypted space, without compromising privacy or security. The platform allows companies to build new revenue streams from these underutilized datasets and algorithms, all the while complying with relevant privacy regulation. TripleBlind has already had experience working with companies like Google, Apple, Facebook and Uber.

TripleBlind is using their tools and skill sets in ways that they hadn’t intended during this pandemic. By creating the Private Kit: Safe Paths app, they are hoping to do their part to contribute to the fight against the virus while pursuing a new business opportunity.

“If you show up as an infected person, this app is going to make your life a boatload easier. If you show up at the hospital infected and you don’t have this app — you’re going to sit through an hours-long manual interview while you try to remember where you’ve been the last 28 days,” said Greg Storm, COO and co-founder, urging consumers and volunteer developers to support the project.

“If you have this app it’ll show you exactly where you’ve been in the last 28 days. You don’t have to remember anything and it will make that process much shorter and much more efficient.”

In recent days, Private Kit has gained support from the World Health Organization, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control, and the foreign governments of Spain, Italy, Chile, and India. Next to come is the endorsement of the app from the U.S. government.

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