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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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