Will you be signing up for the contact tracing service?

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If you have a smart phone will you be signing up for the government/Apple/Android contact tracing service to be alerted if you've been in contact somebody with Covid 19?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52294896

yes.

Yes

Yes, anything to get this dealt with asap!

Nope. I have absolutely no faith in the government to use my data appropriately or responsibly. We're a bit too late for track and trace anyway.

I don't like the bit where they can override your anonymity.

Nope. I don't think it will work well...and I don't carry my phone with me every time I leave the house. I leave it at home just now when possible because it's one less thing to clean when I get home.

I was a no initially. However in the last few hours more info hascome out about the app development of one here in Aus. Our attorney general is working through privacy/ data considerations and am less concerned now. Prob will but to be honest my life is very simple and routine (and live in boonies) that I'm prob not the targeted audience for the tech.

Yes I would but I can not see it working as well as they intend.

Yes. Of course!

I would!

If it's as contagious as the guidelines suggest, how would contact tracing work? I could pick it up in the supermarket, on the bus,from passing someone too close on a walk or from touching something someone else touched 3 days earlier. I wouldn't know who I'd been in contact with.

Orwellian doesn't even begin to describe it. To me, it's very high on the scale of us sleepwalking into a surveillance society with "voluntary" measures such as smart meters, and Alexa.

Having said that, if it might bring normality sooner...

Yes I would down load and use the app willingly, the sooner we get back to some kind of normality the better.

I don't have a smartphone (too big, chunky, powerhungry, fragile and no need). But as most people seem happy to be tracked by google I would think most would not object to this.

I don't really understand the point unless the official guidelines are going to change to say you should isolate if you've been in contact with someone who's infected.

No way.... And if it ever became mandatory, I would bin my smart phone and just use a tablet at home for things I needed apps for.

If it means life can go back to (somewhat) normal then yes I would.

Those saying no, would you or do you have an Alexa or similar?

No. I rarely use my mobile and I am always very concerned about misuse of data. The UK Gov has an appalling record. It was only about a year ago the HMRC breached data laws and recorded about 1m people without consent for voice recognition and without doing a privacy impact assessment. They were not even fined by the ICO.

I also rarely take a mobile out with me when I go out either. Thankfully the state has not yet forcibly chipped me.

I wouldn’t say yes or no to anything until I knew exactly what it entailed.

Yes, and I think you should have to do so. It's the only reason South Korea has had such low cases and deaths. They were able to say that you might have contracted Covid before you became symptomatic and spread it further.

No way.... And if it ever became mandatory, I would bin my smart phone and just use a tablet at home for things I needed apps for.

I don't know that the government would actually go down this route, but at one point there was some discussion about making it a dependency for certain activities. E.g. you wouldn't be allowed on public transport unless you could show you were low risk according to the app. It's what they did in China for access even just to supermarkets, but they did it based on QR codes, which is obviously more universal than an app, because not everyone has a smart phone.

Sorry, pressed post too soon. The video explains how it works.

If you are contacted, you isolate, and the map feature enables people to stay away from hot spots.

@Greenandcabbagelooking well thankfully we don't live in a police state yet.

Yes BUT before that I would like to see the antibody test rolled out, or maybe both together.

I'm pretty sure I've had it but didn't have a test...I'm not going to isolate myself every time I come into contact with it again unless I know I haven't already had it, assuming by that time we're all back at work in offices etc. I'm not in any hurry to be commuting again by the way.

Yes, but I wonder how this will work in cities? I’m in Home Counties. Travel on public transport. I just have visions of being told every day I’ve been in contact with someone who has tested positive. I just wonder if people will deactivate if it’s permanently telling them they have to isolate for 7 days.