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Covid has been curtailed without the need for these apps (in all the places that opened up). Why do people insist on pushing them to people? There is no evidenc
by buboard 6y ago
Covid has been curtailed without the need for these apps (in all the places that opened up). Why do people insist on pushing them to people? There is no evidence they work, even when with months of testing. No matter how anonymized you try to make them, the authorities and evil state actors will find ways to abuse the data -- it's like a law of nature now that all data will be abused.
E.g. in case of a bombing or riots, the police can arrest bystanders and use phones to tell who was standing next to whom.
Pushing these for security theater has long term bad consequences. I was hoping people would know that after the 1000th repetition but alas, people are incorrigible
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/coronavirus-contact-tracing-apps-were-tech-s-chance-step-they-n1230211 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/coronavirus-contact-t...
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/contact-tracing-app-isle-of-wight-trial https://www.wired.co.uk/article/contact-tracing-app-isle-of-...
- JoeSmithson 6y agoCovid has been curtailed mainly with extremely expensive lockdowns. The purpose of the apps is to control the spread going forward, without lockdown.
- _-___________-_ 6y ago> Covid has been curtailed mainly with extremely expensive lockdowns. Citation needed. We don't know conclusively what curtailed it in places where it has been curtailed, since there were many different control approaches occurring at the same time. There are also several countries where lockdown effectively ended weeks or months ago, and spread is not occurring despite a lack of widespread use of these apps, not to mention a variety of approaches to lockdown itself with no obvious correlation between strictness of the approach and mortality/infection stats.