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Digital contact tracing will fail unless privacy is respected, experts warn
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You're advocating locking people up and removing their human rights. If you want to live in a police state fella, go move to a suitable country. This is the UK - this is not how we roll.I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter man
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There is no human right to endanger life of (many) others.Originally posted by Whorty View PostYou're advocating locking people up and removing their human rights. If you want to live in a police state fella, go move to a suitable country. This is the UK - this is not how we roll.
You get s free tin foil hat and get to watch on TV how others safely get back to the kind of society we may have lost forever.
And you will be able to change your mind - use Govt mandated app at all times, you csn wear your tin foil hat too, that’s ok.Comment
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There is no other way apart from compulsory tracking system on movements - manual contact tracing will fail miserably.
That should be the starting point - maybe later, much later things can be relaxed, but right now it’s race against time before proper economic collapse.Comment
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And a cat to attach it to.Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostSo it's a prerequisite that every citizen must have a smart phone, tovarich?Comment
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“ We don't need fancy expensive apps where people are going to be exposed to issues of data privacy," Newcastle University Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science director Prof Allyson Pollock told BBC News.”
Coronavirus: NHS contact-tracing app is tested at RAF base - BBC News
Sit at home then, buddy - you might be able to do your job from hime, but lots of people can’t.
Privacy issues FFS - Facebook, Google, GcHQ, every mobile provider already know everythingComment
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“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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