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"Only draconian access to personal data, as used in South Korea, seems to have brought any positive results." The article quickly glosses over this fact (and l
by njarboe 6y ago
"Only draconian access to personal data, as used in South Korea, seems to have brought any positive results."
The article quickly glosses over this fact (and leaves out Taiwan) and labels this successful system for stopping COVID-19 spread as draconian. I imagine that the NSA/CIA/FBI already has such a system in place that maybe it would just needs to get scaled up to cover everyone in the US. It's too bad the people in the US can't trust their government to ramp up and use such a tool to stop COVID-19 and then shut down the system afterwords. The Patriot Act proved that once given special powers any limited time provisions just keep getting extended forever. Some people born after 9/11 are adults at this point.