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Originally Posted by Dr. Bobsky
There’s an opportunity with anonymous apps to track and eliminate all contagious outbreaks. Imagine seasonal flu being eliminated not because of a vaccine breakthrough but because we can capture it’s spread in real time.
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If only anonymous data really was anonymous. It has been shown time and time again that it is easy, in relative terms, for individuals or the government to use patterns in so called anonymous data to figure out who a person is. The cause is just, but once these governments and companies have the data they'll never stop. They haven't before, and they sure wont when this pandemic ends.
I don't trust, Apple, Google, or any Government to handle that amount of data safely, even if they don't mean to miss use it. All it would take is one employee being mad for being fired, or just having a bad day, like in the case of the credit companies over the past few years, for that data to get leaked into the wrong hands or simply having names released to the public. That opens a big can of worms, which could lead to people being blocked from employment, and all sorts of things.