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PlainName:

--- Quote ---I mean people think nothing of handing over their personal information to social networking sites
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Some people do. And those people will probably accept that coronavirus trumps (sorry!) any privacy worries. Which is understandable since they don't have any worries in the first place (otherwise they wouldn't be on Facebook et al.).


--- Quote ---but anything associated in some way with government and the conspiracy theories start to fly
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Snowden showed us real life trumps (again! sorry) conspiracy theories in that regard.

But the big difference is that social media won't kick down your front door at 6am because their erroneous reading of your intertubes traffic suggests you're a terrorist or kiddy fiddler. You can log out of social media; you can't turn off your local (or higher) PTB.

james_s:
Rationally this is true, but people are not rational about these things.

Facebook might not kick in your door, but it should be obvious to anyone with half a brain that the government entities keep close tabs on social networking sites, they can access anything you post on there either by social engineering or with a court order.

I don't let social apps anywhere near my phone. I'd be willing to install a Covid tracking app on a temporary basis though. I'm not interesting enough for someone to actually want to track me but I still don't want to just hand over my data without getting something valuable in return. I consider tracking the spread of a pandemic, determining just how bad it is and quickly identifying outbreaks in order to allow most of us a return to some degree of normalcy to be a pretty significant return. Many don't think like that though.

vodka:

--- Quote from: nctnico on April 26, 2020, 02:39:06 pm ---What I find annoying is that every country seems to want to develop their own Corona tracking app. In the end the functionality is the same because the problem is exactly the same for everyon so why not use one and the same app? I get the impression some government officials have the pipe dream of developing an app that somehow doesn't need to collect any information  :palm:

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For what? It is more effective closing the border  :-// Today, it is the first day that allow to walk the children. The people have gone out like the chicken meme.  I believe that Dance Coffin  guys are going to work until end Summer.

floobydust:
The phone tracking and logging is just google and Apple pushing their "surveillance capitalism" onto people so they can improve their analytics and know where you go, who you associate with, sans permission.
Look at these pictures, a phone app is utterly useless - unless the police get to use it to issue tickets. CCP is right on, having full freedom is dangerous  :palm:

bd139:
People might want to read up on how it works before actually making that assumption. This is not positional tracking. The governments asked for that and Google and Apple told them to get fucked.

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