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No. The fact that we didn't enforce proper privacy controls with harsh penalties is the scandal.

Unless you're arguing we are innately incapable of doing that? That feels like defeatism.

Even if I thought that the corporate world could be controlled, which I don't, I admit complete defeat in expecting the intelligence community to obey any privacy requirements.

It's a tried and tested tool in fighting disease outbreaks. What else would we do?

It works if I’m just a number to the system though right?

When you're dealing with problems that are larger than your city district - and a global pandemic definitely qualifies - you're always just a number to the system. There is no other way.

Eh? Contract tracing has been effective in a bunch of countries. And the framework Apple and Google worked together on works great and protects privacy.

The problem is the government incompetence and/or malfeasance, not contract tracing itself.

> The framework Apple and Google worked together on works great and protects privacy.

Not so.

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/contact_tracing_app_...