22-04-2020, 07:18 PM
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Contact Tracing on smartphones
One of the ways being suggested for getting us out of lockdown, when the time is right, is that everyone who has a smartphone would have to load the Contact Tracing app controlled by the necessary authoritiesVia a permanently live bluetooth connection it automatically sends you an alert if someone you have been in contact with recently has developed covid 19 symptoms.
You are then supposed to get tested yourself and if positive, you have to (as well as self isolate obviously) fill that info on the app and then that, in turn, alerts your recent contacts..
It would mean giving the app permission to use you phone location device of course which means a loss of privacy of sorts.
Would you load it?
COULD you load it? Perhaps some don't own smartphones. Would you accept one if government deemed it necessary for everyone to have one?
22-04-2020, 08:06 PM
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Re: Contact Tracing on smartphones
There is absolutely no way that I would make use of such an application (I REFUSE to call them "apps") on my very basic Nokia.In fact I turn my kiddiephone off when out. The downside is that I can't be contacted when out but I take the view let the buggers wait but the upside is that I leave no trail. When left turned on your cellphone leaves an electronic slime trail even when not in use.
22-04-2020, 08:53 PM
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Re: Contact Tracing on smartphones
Originally Posted by Rhian
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One of the ways being suggested for getting us out of lockdown, when the time is right, is that everyone who has a smartphone would have to load the Contact Tracing app controlled by the necessary authoritiesVia a permanently live bluetooth connection it automatically sends you an alert if someone you have been in contact with recently has developed covid 19 symptoms.
You are then supposed to get tested yourself and if positive, you have to (as well as self isolate obviously) fill that info on the app and then that, in turn, alerts your recent contacts..
It would mean giving the app permission to use you phone location device of course which means a loss of privacy of sorts.
Would you load it?
COULD you load it? Perhaps some don't own smartphones. Would you accept one if government deemed it necessary for everyone to have one?
22-04-2020, 09:05 PM
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Re: Contact Tracing on smartphones
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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There is absolutely no way that I would make use of such an application (I REFUSE to call them "apps") on my very basic Nokia. In fact I turn my kiddiephone off when out. The downside is that I can't be contacted when out but I take the view let the buggers wait but the upside is that I leave no trail. When left turned on your cellphone leaves an electronic slime trail even when not in use.
Worried about blackmail?
Donkeyman! 🤐🤐🤐
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