Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere

Re:Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere by jmull on Saturday July 25, 2020 @12:09PM (#23950249)

Indeed, if you start with the contact tracing platform, add a mass surveillance system to it, you end up with a mass surveillance system. Note that a surveillance system like the one you propose doesn’t need the contact tracing platform to work.

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Re:Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere by dharmab on Saturday July 25, 2020 @12:22PM (#23950365)

But it does make it a heck of a lot cheaper to build and scale. You need far fewer cameras and can spread cheap bluetooth beacons densely across the area. And you can put beacons in places you can't use cameras.

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Re:Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere by IX-103 on Saturday July 25, 2020 @12:50PM (#23950613)

Wait, so how are you matching the beacons (cryptographic random values) back to individual users?The back end only gets that information if a user tests positive and agrees to submit the data.

Even then there is no reason to store that linkage so server compromises won't leak this information.

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