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Any contract tracing system that is not time limited and disposable by design is a surveillance system being introduced in the guise of contact tracing. My ide
by eternalban 7y ago
Any contract tracing system that is not time limited and disposable by design is a surveillance system being introduced in the guise of contact tracing.
My ideal tracing system would include disposable components, such as time-boxed smart cards, that are disposed of when an epidemic wave (cycle) ends. If the pandemic has multiple waves, each wave will entail producing a new series of disposable components.
Another important aspect of a genuine tracing system would be that it does not hook into infrastructure of surveillance capitalism behemoths.
The regrettable fact is that this contact tracing app will definitely become a requirement for getting a job, and very likely at some point a de facto identity and civil passport for being able to access modern infrastructure and urban areas.
- ryeights 7y ago>The regrettable fact is that this contact tracing app will definitely become a requirement for getting a job, and very likely at some point a de facto identity and civil passport for being able to access modern infrastructure and urban areas. Should be an easy fix now that the app is open-sourced: just build a version of the app with all the tracking code stripped out, leaving a mock UI that always says "no contact detected"
- eternalban 7y agoThe issue is not that. This is raising private corporate infrastructure (Google, Apple, etc.) to a quasi-governmental role. Something so tightly bound with fundamental civil and human rights concerns, should not depend on these giants. Think China's Baidu. And here is a deliciously ironic title and article: China's Dystopian Tech Could Be Contagious https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/chinas-dangerous-dream-of-urban-control/553097/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/china...