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After a certain point is it just better for everyone to keep an old burner smartphone for these ‘required’ apps

• smt88 6y ago
  In this case, I disagree. This is a private school, and its students are customers. Their school is forcing an app on them that violates their privacy far more than is necessary for contact tracing, and it was developed by a non-software firm with no understanding of security. The solution here is to petition and protest the school, not just work around the app.
  • kyleee 6y ago
    I think you are both correct, but since there is no guarantee about the timeline and success of the "petition and protest" approach, I'm all for the burner phone strategy in the meantime.
• throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
  I can't read the article (no js = blocked) but why not, when asked, hand over an ancient no-internet dumbphone and say "this is my only phone"[0] - what are they going to do, ban you, buy you a smartphone with their money? [0] in my case that would be true
  • Polylactic_acid 6y ago
    They will just tell you to buy a compatible phone or you will not be allowed on site. Its a private school so if you are too poor for a $50 android phone then you wouldn't be able to go to the school anyway.
    • smabie 6y ago
      I bet you could make the school buy the phone, these kind of places desperately need the money. I attended a very small liberal arts school right after the great recession. If you were paying your way (50k/yr), they were desperate to have you. The number of scholarship students who got expelled for drugs or alcohol were many, the number of full tuition students, zero.