Covid-19 tracking app

[eggsarascal]

How many of you will download the app?

 

 

[Steve Bullman]

Nope 

[Gary Prentice]

I'm in no way a conspiracy theorist but this does kind of make me uneasy. Being told, on the news this AM, that it was a duty to download raised my hackles somewhat. 

 

Overall I'm reluctant to, unless someone can convince me otherwise.

[eggsarascal]

I would have set up a poll if I knew how to.

 

A) yes.

B) no

C) not to start with

D) I wouldn't trust the bastards with my data even though you could find out all about me on the web.

[Mark Bolam]

How much is it?

[eggsarascal]

Just now, Mark Bolam said:

How much is it?

£50, I've sent you a pm with my Paypal details. Thanks.

[tree-fancier123]

they want to use bluetooth proximity to find people who have been in range of a positive person. 

anyone willing to cooperate will have to switch on bluetooth to start with and then comply immediately if they get a message from the app to say their device picked up a signal from the phone of an infected person so they must now isolate themselves with immediate effect.

walking along the back of the checkouts towards the exit may be a good place for getting these encrypted randomised tags stored in your phone.

the technical side of it, involving bluetooth range and speed, may or may not mirror genuine risk of infection from proximity to a contagious person.

Re spyware - if you want to comply with the initiative, it is a trivial task to back up your data and contacts with the idea of performing a factory reset after the contact tracing is done with. Unless you're a terrorist, or worse, what is there of any interest to worry about? Maybe its going to hoover up email passwords and banking etc. Change them?

[eggsarascal]

4 minutes ago, tree-fancier123 said:

they want to use bluetooth proximity to find people who have been in range of a positive person. 

anyone willing to cooperate will have to switch on bluetooth to start with and then comply immediately if they get a message from the app to say their device picked up a signal from the phone of an infected person so they must now isolate themselves with immediate effect.

walking along the back of the checkouts towards the exit may be a good place for getting these encrypted randomised tags stored in your phone.

the technical side of it, involving bluetooth range and speed, may or may not mirror genuine risk of infection from proximity to a contagious person.

Re spyware - if you want to comply with the initiative, it is a trivial task to back up your data and contacts with the idea of performing a factory reset after the contact tracing is done with. Unless you're a terrorist, or worse, what is there of any interest to worry about? Maybe its going to hoover up email passwords and banking etc. Change them?

Cambridge analytica springs to mind.

[Gary Prentice]

10 minutes ago, tree-fancier123 said:

if you want to comply with the initiative, it is a trivial task to back up your data and contacts with the idea of performing a factory reset

Speak for yourself,  you're talking to the technologically challenged here. 

Edited May 5, 2020 by Gary Prentice

[Gary Prentice]

30 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

I would have set up a poll if I knew how to.

 

A) yes.

B) no

C) not to start with

D) I wouldn't trust the bastards with my data even though you could find out all about me on the web.

Maybe click the 'Poll' button on the 'Create new topic' page?