Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a Covid app, but it hasn’t helped much

Re:Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a Covid app, but it ha... by CathedralBorrow on Saturday May 16, 2020 @04:50PM (#23207110)

Iceland has done quite fine through this with contact tracing as one of the main tools in the toolbox. I think a blanket statement of "not needed" needs something more behind it.

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Re:Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a Covid app, but it ha... by triyambakam on Saturday May 16, 2020 @07:05PM (#23207952)

We have better tools that don't involve invasion of privacy. How many people praised the Patriot Act after 9/11?

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Re:Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a Covid app, but it ha... by CathedralBorrow on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:45AM (#23210420)

Iceland does not have the Patriot Act or anything like it, so I'm not sure how that's relevant here.

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Re:Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a Covid app, but it ha... by triyambakam on Sunday May 17, 2020 @06:51PM (#23216262)

Contact tracing is a world wide privacy issue, and especially in the US. I'm talking more generally here, especially that the overwhelming sentiment here on HN towards contact tracing is indifference or praise. We should not be praising further encroachments on our privacy, especially when contract tracing is hardly an effective way to mitigate the disease

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Re:Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a Covid app, but it ha... by CathedralBorrow on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @06:27AM (#23245247)

I respectfully disagree that "we should" do what you would prefer to happen. Contact tracing is not a privacy issue here.

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