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Somewhat inevitable that the briefing will begin tomorrow against Apple and Google that American big tech firms are deliberately frustrating attempts to fight C
by kristianc 6y ago
Somewhat inevitable that the briefing will begin tomorrow against Apple and Google that American big tech firms are deliberately frustrating attempts to fight COVID and wouldn’t it be better if we just taxed them out of existence.
Shame, as a UK citizen I’m entirely supportive of the stance Apple and Google are taking.
- tomatocracy 6y agoI'm not so sure that this type of framing will work so well in the UK. I suspect a lot of the press will jump straight to "it's because Dominic Cummings wants to benefit his mates who do dodgy data mining". Even if that's demonstrably totally untrue, enough people will believe that narrative for it to become mainstream. The fact that there are plenty of other countries who are content to go with the Google/Apple API will also neutralize a lot of this type of criticism.
- PaulKeeble 6y agoI have no idea how to predict the UK public anymore. When it comes to the snoopers charter it went by with barely a whisper from the populace and yet when it comes to the 18+ filter on broadband something like 93% of people had opted out on their home broadband. It's exceptionally rare to find so many people do the opposite of default. I can't work out if the Uk public do or do not care about privacy and their security or what but they surprise me with their actions at times.