Re:Google promised its contact tracing app was completely pr...
by bongobingo on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:58AM
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Bluetooth contact tracing had absolutely no chance of ever working.
15% of adults don’t own a smartphone.
47% of children don’t own a smartphone.
Of the 85% of adults who own a smartphone, 20% don’t carry it with them.
At absolute best 50-60% of Americans would be walking around with a contact tracing app. And that is if it was forcibly installed, and forcibly enabled.
The tracing is pointless even before we get into the technical flaws.
When you’re indoors, 6 feet is irrelevant. The air is circulating.
Bluetooth signals penetrate walls and glass.
The end of all this is a system that absolutely no one would trust on the positive or negative. Seriously think about whether you would consider an “all green” to unequivocally mean you were safe. Or that a “red alert” was actually cause for concern.
This has absolutely no chance at working. And despite what you’re saying about privacy, it is the mere existence of a tool like this that is alarming. It’s baked into the operating system, with no visibility into how it might be used in the future.
15% of adults don’t own a smartphone.
47% of children don’t own a smartphone.
Of the 85% of adults who own a smartphone, 20% don’t carry it with them.
At absolute best 50-60% of Americans would be walking around with a contact tracing app. And that is if it was forcibly installed, and forcibly enabled.
The tracing is pointless even before we get into the technical flaws.
When you’re indoors, 6 feet is irrelevant. The air is circulating.
Bluetooth signals penetrate walls and glass.
The end of all this is a system that absolutely no one would trust on the positive or negative. Seriously think about whether you would consider an “all green” to unequivocally mean you were safe. Or that a “red alert” was actually cause for concern.
This has absolutely no chance at working. And despite what you’re saying about privacy, it is the mere existence of a tool like this that is alarming. It’s baked into the operating system, with no visibility into how it might be used in the future.