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Contact tracing apps didn't get installed enough to be effective. Turns out they weren't needed. Tracking without warrants is already possible when there is a
by therockspush 6y ago
Contact tracing apps didn't get installed enough to be effective. Turns out they weren't needed. Tracking without warrants is already possible when there is a will.
Unless people stopped dragging their phones around, the information is already there.
Dumb question here, but why isn't this being used for the thing, contact tracing, that everyone claims is what we need to stop the spread?
- m1gu3l 6y agoSimple answer might be: no organized coordinated effort was ever made to stop the spread in the US. That surveillance stuff is so much easier in a secret court where you don’t have to answer to annoying “citizens”.
- grae_euler 6y agoNot enough money in it most likely