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This has never been the approach we've taken for any other virus. This sets a precedent that anyone who values privacy should be very, very against.

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• closeparen 6y ago
  Contact tracing is how every outbreak until this one got contained. If people took this attitude with human contact tracers, pandemics like this would be routine.
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  • nostrebored 6y ago
    This comparison isn't reasonable. Yeah, contact tracing can be an effective tool, but there's something very different between that and homespun apps to track who has run into who. If you don't think these apps will be used 1) during wartime 2) to track political dissidents 3) to gather data on interactions between people in a country for things like 'urban planning' 4) as a monetized version of each of these Then I don't think you're treating distributed, scalable contact tracing like other technology.
    • pjc50 6y ago
      Oh, they certainly will - as will the routine tracking from everything else, including Google Play Services, Facebook etc. At least the pandemic contact tracing has a clear public benefit.
    • paul_f 6y ago
      You can add stalkers
  • lki876 6y ago
    Almost no outbreaks are ever successfully contained though.
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  • chippy 6y ago
    the patriot act was passed because people were scared and wanted to stop terrorism