I have a rather cynical prediction for these apps: they will be mandatory for us to have to use various public services, and they will cost absurd amounts of mo

I have a rather cynical prediction for these apps: they will be mandatory for us to have to use various public services, and they will cost absurd amounts of money. This will be regardless of the efficacy because the goal isn’t safety or surveillance, but extracting rents for the politically-connected people who will be “approved vendors.”