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Re:Contact-tracing data harvested from pubs and restaurants ... by recursivedoubts on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:10PM (#24748686)
The fact that the notion of contact-tracing wasn't immediately met with howls of laughter and/or outrage is perhaps the most depressing aspect of 2020, a year with some extremely stiff competition in the "well, now, that's depressing" category.
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Re:Contact-tracing data harvested from pubs and restaurants ... by andybak on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:12PM (#24748712)
No. The fact that we didn't enforce proper privacy controls with harsh penalties is the scandal.

Unless you're arguing we are innately incapable of doing that? That feels like defeatism.

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Re:Contact-tracing data harvested from pubs and restaurants ... by recursivedoubts on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:24PM (#24748794)
Even if I thought that the corporate world could be controlled, which I don't, I admit complete defeat in expecting the intelligence community to obey any privacy requirements.
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Re:Contact-tracing data harvested from pubs and restaurants ... by dividedbyzero on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:37PM (#24748887)
It's a tried and tested tool in fighting disease outbreaks. What else would we do?
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Re:Contact-tracing data harvested from pubs and restaurants ... by chrismatheson on Sunday October 11, 2020 @05:18PM (#24749186)
It works if I’m just a number to the system though right?
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Re:Contact-tracing data harvested from pubs and restaurants ... by TeMPOraL on Sunday October 11, 2020 @06:01PM (#24749475)
When you're dealing with problems that are larger than your city district - and a global pandemic definitely qualifies - you're always just a number to the system. There is no other way.
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Re:Contact-tracing data harvested from pubs and restaurants ... by untog on Sunday October 11, 2020 @06:17PM (#24749571)
Eh? Contract tracing has been effective in a bunch of countries. And the framework Apple and Google worked together on works great and protects privacy.

The problem is the government incompetence and/or malfeasance, not contract tracing itself.

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Re:Contact-tracing data harvested from pubs and restaurants ... by HugeAcumen on Sunday October 11, 2020 @07:46PM (#24750101)
> The framework Apple and Google worked together on works great and protects privacy.

Not so.

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/contact_tracing_app_...

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