Even my 80 yo parents have a cell phone. Bet it is hard to find someone over the age of 16 that does not have a phone
If contacting tracing APP is official, will you still go hobbying?
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If they ever did mandatorily make you have a location app I wonder how long it would take for the Pirate community to develop a counter showing your location to be anywhere. Just like VPN's for the Pirating communities. Then we can all set them to say we are at Bebe's house. (LOL just kidding).
Numerous countries simply bypassed the app side of things and went straight to the cell signal. Might sound bad for privacy but it's not like Google, Apple, etc. don't track it already (and the government can subpoena that data).
Only real downside is your SO or boss asking why you were at that hotel.
Only real downside is your SO or boss asking why you were at that hotel.
My understanding is that the way the contact tracing app would work (at least, the Apple/Google one, not sure if the gov't has settled on that one yet) is that the notification goes directly to the user, and the link is not actually exposed to public health authorities. So, for example:
This seems like the best of both worlds, in that contacts get promptly notified, but there is no exposure for the industry / individuals partaking.
There are other downsides to proximity-based apps, though. For example, Bluetooth signals travel pretty readily through interior walls, so the app can't reliably tell the difference between an actual encounter in a room, and you happening to come within a few metres of a person in an adjacent condo unit or upstairs/downstairs from you. So there's bound to be a lot of false positives, possibly leading to misplaced panic and eventually people becoming desensitized to notifications, not bothering to follow up and get tested etc.
- You see an SP. Your phones, by virtue of being close to each other, record a "proximity event".
- Within 14 days of the encounter, the SP tests positive for covid-19. (Not necessarily contracted from you.)
- Public health authority asks SP if she has the app. If she does, they activate a feature on it to broadcast a notification to all contacts in the past 14 days of possible exposure.
- You receive the notification, giving you the opportunity to get tested / isolate yourself.
- However, the fact that the contact occurred between you and the SP, is never disclosed to the public health authority.
This seems like the best of both worlds, in that contacts get promptly notified, but there is no exposure for the industry / individuals partaking.
There are other downsides to proximity-based apps, though. For example, Bluetooth signals travel pretty readily through interior walls, so the app can't reliably tell the difference between an actual encounter in a room, and you happening to come within a few metres of a person in an adjacent condo unit or upstairs/downstairs from you. So there's bound to be a lot of false positives, possibly leading to misplaced panic and eventually people becoming desensitized to notifications, not bothering to follow up and get tested etc.
I would be interested he may be a bright 1% who cant spell perfectly who cares I dont . And fuck the app
