Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere
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Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere
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Re: Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere
#2Contact tracing has unfortunately also failed as in "is buggy": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23947323
To be clear, I've installed the tracing app, having the idea that it can only help to isolate hotspots, which however is mainly the health authorities' task. And 16+ million downloads (of how many eligible smartphone owners?) in Germany still makes Corona Warn-App a chart breaker I guess.
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#3Good. Why are people suddenly okay with building likely-permanent surveillance systems for temporary outbreaks? How would Apple ever reasonably remove this feature?
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#4Good. Why are people suddenly okay with building likely-permanent surveillance systems for temporary outbreaks? How would Apple ever reasonably remove this feature?
Well, the Apple/Google mechanism is not useful for surveillance.
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#5If the German app would have been less privacy aware, it wouldn't even had 16 million downloads in Germany. The decentralised approach was and is the only one which at least worked a little bit.
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#6"Contact tracing" was the new "blockchain" for a while. It is a technology with great potential, but I don't expect a truely effective, well-designed solution to be deployed at a large enough scale to be useful for years to come. I think it will eventually mature enough to be useful for future outbreaks - even for more benign disease. For now, though, I want to see the technology spend a little more time in the oven.
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#7Korea did this successfully but you have to give up a lot more privacy. This protect my privacy, and expecting it to work great is some fallacy.
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#8Good. Why are people suddenly okay with building likely-permanent surveillance systems for temporary outbreaks? How would Apple ever reasonably remove this feature?
Well, the Apple/Google mechanism is not useful for surveillance.
Well all the nutjobs like the OP pretending it is not doesn't help the system as well.
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#9Good. Why are people suddenly okay with building likely-permanent surveillance systems for temporary outbreaks? How would Apple ever reasonably remove this feature?
Well, the Apple/Google mechanism is not useful for surveillance.
It’s optional and opt-in now. Do you trust it to stay that way once the framework is in 99% of people’s pocket? I sure don’t.
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#10Korea did this successfully but you have to give up a lot more privacy. This protect my privacy, and expecting it to work great is some fallacy.
Maybe, but privacy is worth protecting, more than ever.