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yokaze·

Care to elaborate?

From your short sentence, I can only guess what you mean, and it is at odds of what I get from the article, which says:

> Privacy is a key requirement of any contact tracing systems

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Your social graph = you. There is no privacy or anonymity in any of these schemes if the data is ever sent to a central server.

That's very general and generally known (at least in this community). How do you see that not addressed in the article? which means are you missing?

"T-Mobile has been hacked yet again—but still doesn’t know what was taken"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/t-mobile-has-been-ha...

Absolutely true that keeping surveillance measures private is key to their successful deployment. Then several years later you can mock the critics by pointing out it's nothing new and they shouldn't be so dramatic.

Not sure, if you are trolling, but assuming good faith: That's not what privacy means. That's secrecy.

There is a certain overlap between anti-vax'ers and 5G-alarmists ( the vaccines contain a chip to track you with 5G! ).

There is also a huge group of people who are just very against the loss of rights and privacy, from location tracking to showing your medical data to waiters in restaurants, but the media likes to pack them in with "flat earth 5g=corona lizard bill gates" people.

If you don't want to be tracked, don't carry a tracking device.

We actually had a short-lived mandate, that if you wanted to cross into another municipality, you needed a phone with a tracking app on. So yeah... complain about that, and be grouped with the flatearthers.

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