Reply to: Track and Trace

[LondonManc]

This whole thing is a scammers dream... Random strangers calling to get your personal data is all part of the new normal.

That's not why it's a scammer's dream, it's because TalkTalk brains are involved.

[darmstadt]

[darmstadt]

If anybody calls they will be calling from the number 03000135000, if you get a text it will come from NHS and they will never ask you for any form of payment or purchase or details of your bank account, and also you will then be given, if you’re online, a QR code to be able to confirm those details online.

I have my little bit of software which will show up as another number on someone else's phone so this is easy to fake....

[AtW]

Erm, that is what is happening in the UK, the app is only part of the track and trace, the phone calls are starting now, the app will come later to automate parts of the process.

First they thought they’ll get away with cheap app - wasted months during which contact tracing could be done - making phone calls is possible from home ffs and lot people were and still are unemployed

[Old Greg]

Erm, that is what is happening in the UK, the app is only part of the track and trace, the phone calls are starting now, the app will come later to automate parts of the process.

And when did these calls start in a systematic way?

[d000hg]

Good morning

Your husbands lover has tested positive for coronavirus you must self isolate with your husband for 14 days

Or

Get burner phone

Fill in details of everyone you don’t like, then let the contact tracers isolate them


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Will contacts be told WHO has been in contact with them or only that SOMEONE has? The former you can say "no they weren't" but it does mean every name you give is informed you have CV. Is that information you might want to be kept private?

[SimonMac]

The reliance on this app has left the UK way behind with contact tracing. Ireland started about 10 weeks ago. I went into client site one day and the army had taken over the canteen and set up a contact tracing team to support Public Health (they are still on site but not in the canteen). Then various civil servants from other departments were brought in. Lots of carefully scripted phone calls to patients and contacts, with a robust but simple IT solution for recording findings. Not complex, but it takes the will to prioritise and the right people to work methodically and reassuringly with the public. A contact tracing app is on its way, but in the meantime, contact tracing continues.

Erm, that is what is happening in the UK, the app is only part of the track and trace, the phone calls are starting now, the app will come later to automate parts of the process.

[SimonMac]

Majority of population doesn't care about are oblivious to data. They have nothing to "hide".

FTFY

[Old Greg]

The reliance on this app has left the UK way behind with contact tracing. Ireland started about 10 weeks ago. I went into client site one day and the army had taken over the canteen and set up a contact tracing team to support Public Health (they are still on site but not in the canteen). Then various civil servants from other departments were brought in. Lots of carefully scripted phone calls to patients and contacts, with a robust but simple IT solution for recording findings. Not complex, but it takes the will to prioritise and the right people to work methodically and reassuringly with the public. A contact tracing app is on its way, but in the meantime, contact tracing continues.

[GhostofTarbera]

Good morning

Your husbands lover has tested positive for coronavirus you must self isolate with your husband for 14 days

Or

Get burner phone

Fill in details of everyone you don’t like, then let the contact tracers isolate them


Sent from my iPhone using Contractor UK Forum

[ladymuck]

Majority of population doesn't care about data. They have nothing to "hide".

Sadly, this is the prevailing view of the majority.

When someone says that to me, I ask them for their email log in and bank details.

[elsergiovolador]

Majority of population doesn't care about data. They have nothing to "hide".

[AtW]

This whole thing is a scammers dream... Random strangers calling to get your personal data is all part of the new normal.

Nah - the real Govt contact tracers will tell you the kind of private info only Govt knows to prove they are genuine

[dx4100]

This whole thing is a scammers dream... Random strangers calling to get your personal data is all part of the new normal.

[AtW]

Everybody who matters (big Govts) or can afford to pay (a lot of companies) already got your personal data