[Nottingham] [Misc] UK ... almost alone ... centralized virus contact-tracing app

[Martin]

Normally there's no cross-boarders working: There's a multitude of
mutually incompatible apps tied into a particular country/governance.

With one 'half-exception':

Apparently, the app that is unique for Eire also works for Northern
Island mobile numbers, but that is just a concession for people in
Northern Island to use the unique app from Eire...

And there's multiple reports that trying to guess distance from
Bluetooth signal strength is uselessly inaccurate. No surprise really
considering all the confounding factors that have nothing to do with the
nice clean inverse-square law for distance...

And, and... There is far too much scope for people to abuse and game the
system...

And then there is the aspect of the present and future abuse of the
moment by moment tracking data that can be, or is, collected... Was that
Baroness Dido's hoped for "cherry on the cake"?


There has to be a better way.

For example, staying safe at source? Following safe practices to avoid
infection in the first place?...


This looks to be all a very strange 'game'...

One for discussion on Thursday?... ;-)

Stay safe!


Cheers,
Martin



On 23/06/2020 09:00, J I wrote:
> How will any of these apps work across borders? Will you need to install
> the app for every country you visit?
> And keep in mind, the efficacy of these apps is yet to be proven.
> 
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 20:04, Martin via Nottingham
> wrote:
> 
>     A mere month later and sure enough:
> 
> 
>     England ditches central database model for test-and-trace apps in favour
>     of Apple/Google [decentralised] approach
> 
>     Plus: Contact-tracing contracts dished out reportedly worth £108m
> 
>     https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/18/uk_ditches_central_database_model/
> 
> 
>     So... How much of our money has been squandered on that?!
> 
>     To gold line the pockets of who?...
> 
> 
>     Hopefully there will be some tracing of how and where our money got
>     thrown away on that one?...
> 
>     One to follow yet further...
> 
> 
>     Stay safe!
>     Martin
> 
> 
>     On 22/05/2020 02:06, Martin via Nottingham wrote:
>     > On 07/05/2020 15:05, Martin via Nottingham wrote:
>     >> Folks,
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>> What do you all think to this?
>     >>>
>     >>> Richard Stallman was right all along to leave his mobile phone OFF?
> 
>     > What a bunch of comedians?!...
>     >
>     > See what you think?...