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Re:Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government'... by driverdan on Sunday April 26, 2020 @05:31PM (#22990445)
That makes it worse. A well-intentioned, well-meaning government org could create something with proper privacy controls and then another part of the government with worse intentions could get their hands on the data.
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Re:Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government'... by hilbert42 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @08:27PM (#22991686)
"A well-intentioned, well-meaning government org<...>"

Yuh, has there ever been one? If so where and when? (I've been around quite some years now and I've never seen one anywhere.)

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Re:Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government'... by godelski on Monday April 27, 2020 @02:19AM (#22993345)
Never attribute to malice what can be just as easily attributed to stupidity. While there are clear bad actors, I do believe that many do think what they are doing is for the best. Few people are actually evil, most are just stupid. I'd consider that a win considering that we're chimps that are barely able to communicate with one another even when we speak the same language.
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