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>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
by ryeights 6y 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 6y 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...