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This is of little interest to 5-eyes. For a start, installation of the app is voluntary so if you're planning something you really don't want the government to
by chimprich 6y ago
This is of little interest to 5-eyes.
For a start, installation of the app is voluntary so if you're planning something you really don't want the government to discover, you wouldn't install it.
Also, intelligence services already get call metadata so they know which mobile towers you are using and probably lots else.
As for effectiveness, I think it will be useful. There have been several papers crunching the numbers and it looks like it will have an effect. It doesn't need to be perfect - any non-trivial reduction in R is helpful.
- Sephiroth87 6y agoVoluntary for now
- PaulRobinson 6y agoThey mentioned a few weeks back that the end goal would be if you had the app it could act as a virtual health passport and you’d be allowed to go out shopping, go to work and the pub, etc. And without it? Stay at home. So yeah, technically voluntary, but, y‘know...
- ghaff 6y agoInstall it on a secondary phone? Of course it all depends on how serious the government is and how hard you are willing to work to circumvent controls.
- parkovski 6y agoJust a minor annoyance except of course for those not rich enough to own two phones, but I suppose if you didn't want to be oppressed you should have thought of that before you decided to be born poor, right?
- iso1210 6y agoYou can get a cheap android phone and a faraday cage bag for the cost of a night out at the pub