• MoonlitSanguine@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Unfortunantly this kind of data will be misused. I remember there was a big push from my governemnt to use contact tracing apps. Only to find out later that police were using it in investigations.

    • ruination@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      well, that’s the centralised implementation, which i also don’t like. iirc there’s a decentralised implementation where, instead of tracking your location and sending it to a central server, each device would have a uuid. whenever you come near someone, both of your devices would just swap uuids and take note of them, and if either of you catches covid, they can just open that list of collected uuids and use that to notify the people who came into contact with them. imo not only is this more privacy-friendly, but it saves infrastructure costs from not having to host centralised servers.

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      1 year ago

      Got a source for that? The approach google and Apple implemented was completely anonymous, even with rolling identifiers.

  • zik
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    1 year ago

    In a study in Australia it was found to have been almost useless in preventing infections while being heavily used by police to invade privacy.