For all the controversy over decentralized contact-tracing apps, data show that these privacy-preserving tools saved thousands of lives during the pandemic. National and international authorities must invest in the technology now.
I refused to use it and blocked it on my devices. I have zero trust in my government (France) when it comes to data. It’s both too incompetent and too prone to authoritarism to be trusted with anything like that.
I’m in Belgium. I kept mine faithfully on, because I wanted to be able to somewhat warn people I might have infected them (in the end, I never actually got covid, at least not with symptoms). After our next elections, however, I would need to make sure my privacy is respected. The polls are not looking good.
The article’s call for a decentralized, open-sourced system handled by an organization of specialists is pretty much what I would hope for.
I refused to use it and blocked it on my devices. I have zero trust in my government (France) when it comes to data. It’s both too incompetent and too prone to authoritarism to be trusted with anything like that.
I’m in Belgium. I kept mine faithfully on, because I wanted to be able to somewhat warn people I might have infected them (in the end, I never actually got covid, at least not with symptoms). After our next elections, however, I would need to make sure my privacy is respected. The polls are not looking good.
The article’s call for a decentralized, open-sourced system handled by an organization of specialists is pretty much what I would hope for.