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 AstralStorm on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:25PM (#22983785)

You're underestimating the value of essentially real time tracking metadata with high precision, which is not commonly available nor sold. (Unless, say, you give it to Google outright for example, which is frighteningly easy to do.)

And vastly overestimating the quality of the surveillance cameras.

Ultimately, the big pushback has to be against normalization of use of special measures that are devised for special circumstances in general cases.

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Re:Contact apps won't end lockdown. But they might kill off ... by DennisP on Sunday April 26, 2020 @07:27AM (#22986349)

What real time tracking metadata? In the contact tracing system there's no real time tracking at all.

All the server gets is a set of random numbers from a user, after that user tests positive. And while it might be difficult to keep the server from knowing which user tested positive, it's not even necessary to store that.

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