Beginning Monday, November 16, UC Santa Barbara will become one of five campuses to join California COVID Notify , a pilot program of a smartphone-based COVID-19 exposure notification system. The program is a collaboration between UC and the State of California to assess use of the technology on a voluntary basis as a means of reducing the spread of the virus.
The opt-in system, which uses Google/Apple Exposure Notification (GAEN) technology on smartphones, is designed to supplement existing contact-tracing protocols to further help limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It will become available statewide in December.
Faculty, staff, and students will receive a campus-wide memo November 16 containing a link to instructions for opting into the notification system.