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"everyone can know whether you have been near them or not." For a very broad definition of "you" and for an unconventionally small set called "everyone". If yo
by usrusr 6y ago
"everyone can know whether you have been near them or not."
For a very broad definition of "you" and for an unconventionally small set called "everyone". If you are forced to quarantine, a lot of people will know about your infection anyways, completely without any convoluted mental gymnastics about theoretical deanonyzation possibilities. Epidemic control has always been a very low privacy endeavor and app-based tracing following the Google/Apple model doesn't change that the tiniest bit. In fact of it was fully deployed it could replace a lot of far more invasive tracing, causing a net increase in privacy.
- Lammy 6y agoI wish I could believe some new form of surveillance would ever "replace a lot of far more invasive tracing" and not just increase the overall scope of collection. This type of BT-based "offline/historic" mass-snitching just gives privacy-conscious people another thing to have to hide from in addition to the cellular network itself.