tracking apps on phones

How do you feel about governments talking about encouraging or forcing people with a smartphone to install/accept/allow special 'contact tracing' tracking apps to map/monitor the spread/distribution of Sars-COV-2 aka Covid-18/19/20 in your community as an incentive to relax or roll-back 'lockdown' or quarantine restrictions?

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

SW-User

whats the motive I wonder

questionWeaver

@SW-User Singapore

zonavar68 · 51-55, M

@questionWeaver The Trace Together app is the one that's getting mentioned in the media, but recently there was talk that Apple and Google have been working together to create contract tracing apps specifically because of the coronavirus issue. of course governments will be looking at them for a lot more than that.

questionWeaver

@zonavar68 Singapore signed a contract with those two companies to develop the technology, so they could monitor and address people not social distancing

Now they are selling it around the world

SW-User

@zonavar68 After reading about it in the media it isnt clear how its gonna work. Are they saying that if you come close to someone with covid 19 you are automatically regarded as having covid 19. I understand that when someone dies these days if they had contact with someone who is positive for covid 19 that goes on their death certificate