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Wow this is bad, I'm sorry to hear it's already mandatory in one German state. I'm really surprised Germany is playing so loose and fast with privacy as they'r
by GekkePrutser 6y ago
Wow this is bad, I'm sorry to hear it's already mandatory in one German state.
I'm really surprised Germany is playing so loose and fast with privacy as they're known to be one of the countries with the strictest privacy laws around.
By the way how does this work being mandatory with people that don't own a smartphone??
- glitchcrab 6y agoIt stated in the article that you can purchase a fob which can be used in place of the smartphone app.
- read_if_gay_ 6y ago> I'm really surprised Germany is playing so loose and fast with privacy You're surprised because you're expecting politicians to have consistent principles, but it's just about what's convenient right now. This is an inherent issue with having elections every couple of years.
- usrusr 6y agoIt's more like playing loose and slow. For a year, all reasonable projects aiming for a pragmatic compromise between privacy and checkin tracking were reliably choked by privacy concerns. It's hardly surprising that now that opinions are shifting, the only projects remaining are those most lacking in privacy awareness. The aware have long given up. And opinions are shifting in no small part because unsurprisingly, the ineffective pen & paper tracking that was deployed instead was suffering from quite real privacy problems that weren't theoretic at all (routinely breached not by ssh keys in the wrong hands or some backdoor hidden in the code but by just asking nicely).