I find this attitude strange. When you speak to a contact tracer, they ask you who you've been in contact with - and even if you can remember how can you know who you sat next to on a train? At its most basic, the app is just a way of making that process of recollection easier
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It's also potentially a savage tool for exploitation; it's a short-step to targeting whom met with whom for journalists, human rights activists but now with an optimised system to perform these queries.
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I think he has a point. Unless you marry the apps with isolation of the sick and contact tracing then they are of little use and prone to false positives that may do more harm than good. Such apps can work, but only when accompanied with draconian measures the US won't do.
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"My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value" is not true, and will not stand the test of time (look at SK etc). Privacy concerns and other issues like false positives have to be addressed on their merits. "No value" is a losing argument.
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