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That's right! I had read it wrong somehow. I don't find the information that is actually included to be too sensitive then. It might have been useful in this c
by seszett 5y ago
That's right! I had read it wrong somehow. I don't find the information that is actually included to be too sensitive then.
It might have been useful in this case but the French government itself is not allowed to have a general-purpose database of citizen's addresses. Even the address that the social security has for contact purposes cannot be legally used for this (and is probably unreliable anyway as people forget to update their address when moving) and I don't think many people would have been comfortable with communicating their addresses for the purposes of Covid tracking.
- mytailorisrich 5y agoOf course they can collect addresses for this if they want. It's not a general-purpose database, either. One problem we're having in this pandemic is the squeamish and "can't do" attitude on about everything.