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Re:Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their c... by hogFeast on Monday May 04, 2020 @09:39PM (#23075462)
Contact tracing isn't bullshit. It is how they dealt with sexually transmitted diseases four decades ago...it works.

The issue is that the UK govt is composed of a combination of incompetent and corrupt people (one of the companies involved in this is owned by a minister). And they are trying to go with the low-cost option (whilst the govt is subsidising 1/4 of salaries paid in the whole country) rather than the old-school, proven way.

It is kind of shocking but it is the result of a political system (and culture) that rewards incompetence and sloth.

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Re:Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their c... by a1369209993 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:14AM (#23077333)
> It is how they dealt with sexually transmitted diseases four decades ago

That's not untrue, but that's clearly not contact tracing, much less was-in-the-same-room tracing.

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Re:Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their c... by zerocrates on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:49AM (#23076910)
Contact tracing is also in general a lot easier to do for STIs
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