THE NEXT HUNDRED SECONDS // 16 APRIL 2020
Channel: mpesce
Date: 2020-04-15

THE NEXT HUNDRED SECONDS // 16 APRIL 2020
The WHO recommends any country that plans on leaving lockdown have the infrastructure to track and trace all #covid19 infections. Australia proposes to do this with a Bluetooth-based app from Singapore - but people are understandably concerned about the privacy implications. Yet consider: your mobile carrier knows where you are, and who's around you all the time you carry your smartphone with you. And on an Android device, Google is harvesting your location data continuously - along with every other Android user. This is nothing new either in its privacy implications or its technology -- but we need to make sure any app we install has a 'sunset' provision, so that it automatically deletes itself from our smartphones, and stops watching us.