Contact apps won't end lockdown. But they might kill off democracy

Re:Contact apps won't end lockdown. But they might kill off ... by unishark on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:10PM (#22983685)

> Ad companies collect data from apps you use to build targeting profiles.

More like a scary harbinger of what the govt could get away with rather than a counter.

The extent to which browsers and phones monitor people beyond what they intentionally share has never stopped seeming crazy to me, especially given how widely accepted it is.

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Re:Contact apps won't end lockdown. But they might kill off ... by eli on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:32PM (#22983826)

Not with the technology being proposed for contact tracing because the protocol design doesn’t permit it. There’s no central database of where you went or who you met with.

The scary databases already exist and are held by various unaccountable private companies. This is true whether or not we try to implement contact tracing tech. It shouldn’t be an argument against it.

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