They make the premise so innocuous that it would seem unreasonable to object, eg who would object to keeping kids safe?
However it's what comes after this, the slippery slope of what to enforce and not. The genie doesn't go back in the bottle.
However it's what comes after this, the slippery slope of what to enforce and not. The genie doesn't go back in the bottle.
First using paper forms and later using apps.
Why would you object to limiting the spread of the Coronavirus ?
Fast forward to the present where law enforcement in Germany, Australia and Singapore have used contact-tracing for other purposes.
So no to this plan from Apple, they must discard all plans of client-side scanning and instead increase their privacy stance.
- Germany
https://www.golem.de/news/hamburg-polizei-nutzt-corona-konta...
https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2021/luca-app-ccc-fordert-bund...
- Australia
Australia, WA, check-in data: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/safewa-app-sparks-urg...
Australia, WA, border pass data: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/g2g-app-data-accessed...
Australia, VIC, check-in data: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/police-sought-ac...
Australia, QLD, check-in data: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-29/queensland-coronaviru...
- Singapore
https://fortune.com/2021/02/01/singapore-covid-data-tracetog...
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/police-can-a...
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/proposed-restrictions...
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/bill-limitin...
I don't understand how people were so naive to install those applications. I did the exact opposite: whipped my phone and bought two cheap ones so I can separate my calling phone (which I leave home), from my media phone (no connections), and my GPS phone (no connections aside from GPS and turned off most of the time).