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.
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.
Do you have a link talking about that? I didn’t hear about it. If you use the iPhone or Android built in solutions it wasn’t possible to track users with them. Was it other apps that were giving your data away?
What government/country was this, out of curiosity? I thought the whole point of the local-storage-only approach was protecting privacy, so curious how it could be used in investigations.
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.
Do you have a link talking about that? I didn’t hear about it. If you use the iPhone or Android built in solutions it wasn’t possible to track users with them. Was it other apps that were giving your data away?
Australia. It was not the built in solution, but a government made one (SafeWA)
wow. what a farce. absolutely ridiculous. this is why people don’t trust governments.
What government/country was this, out of curiosity? I thought the whole point of the local-storage-only approach was protecting privacy, so curious how it could be used in investigations.
Got a source for that? The approach google and Apple implemented was completely anonymous, even with rolling identifiers.
It was not the Google/Apple implementation. They were government funded apps which used a centralised db.
https://thewest.com.au/politics/law-and-order/wa-police-accessed-contact-tracing-data-c-3118717