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GER police use Covid tracing data to find witnesses in cases unrelated to Covid

• miles 5y ago
  The article itself for those who prefer reading: https://dw.com/en/german-police-under-fire-for-misuse-of-covid-contact-tracing-app/a-60393597 https://dw.com/en/german-police-under-fire-for-misuse-of-cov...
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• LennyHenrysNuts 5y ago
  They did this in Australia: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/breach-of-trust-police-using-qr-check-in-data-to-solve-crimes-20210903-p58om8.html https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/breach-of-trust-poli...
• errantmind 5y ago
  What surprises me is that people are surprised when this happens. Only barely and mostly cynically. Learn from history. If it can be abused, it will. The only way to stop it is to make it impossible to happen in the first place. Usually that means refusing early in the game, as opposed to being 'reasonable' until the inevitable happens. By then it is too late.