Copyright infringement by German contact tracing app

Post by dgellow » Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 7:54 AM UTC

durnygbur wrote: post #18

onli wrote: post #12

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Luca is a cash grab, and maybe more sinister. Since the CWA - the official contact tracing app - switched to not collecting a central database that could be misused we have conservative politicians firing against it. "We give too much importance to data privacy", of course without being able to mention a single feature that the privacy protecting app is missing. Now Luca arrived, with some semi-prominent advocates, a…

> dream scenario of a new location registry of every move of the population Not only politicians, I assume entities like Rundfunkbeitrag, Schufa, conuntless Inkasso will pay fortune to access such data. > Very low corruption at the lower level of society [...] Incredible high amount of corruption and incompetence in the higher spheres This is incredibly shocking for an newcomer to Germany. One swiftly hits the ceilin…

Post by raverbashing » Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 7:55 AM UTC

heckerhut wrote: post #13

Oh the irony. The LUCA app has been co-initiated and financed by Smudo [0], a famous German rapper. He was a supporter of Metallica suing Napster back in 2000 for copyright violation [1]. [0] https://www.chip.de/news/Kontaktverfolgung-mit-Luca-App-von-... [1] https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Smudo-vs-Napster-Da-...

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 7:56 AM UTC

dgellow wrote: post #19

onli wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Luca is a cash grab, and maybe more sinister. Since the CWA - the official contact tracing app - switched to not collecting a central database that could be misused we have conservative politicians firing against it. "We give too much importance to data privacy", of course without being able to mention a single feature that the privacy protecting app is missing. Now Luca arrived, with some semi-prominent advocates, a…

> (you will never see a bribe in everyday life) That's not true, you can see lot of small bribes in normal day-to-day transactions. Almost every single technician I met (for internet installation, electricity, washing machine installation, etc. Even insurance brokers) offered me to pay them cash directly to get some benefits or falsify some recorded data.

Post by andybak » Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 8:05 AM UTC

ganafagol wrote: post #24

ganafagol wrote: post #16

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Well, it's a pandemic. Gotta break some rules to save the world. /s

I recommend all the downvoters to look up "/s".

Post by zeepzeep » Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 8:08 AM UTC

andybak wrote: post #27

ganafagol wrote: post #24

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I recommend all the downvoters to look up "/s".

Maybe it's the sarcastic inverted interpretation that is being downvoted?