To find it scary that people have willingly downloaded the track and trace app?

[SunnyThatsMyName]

This all reminds me of the start of some sci-fi/thriller movie.
Why are people so easily giving away their details to this useless government?

You don't ever use location services on your phone then OP?! Or have an Alexa device in your home? Or fill in those stupid 'favourite' posts on Facebook which helps hackers work out your passwords?!

What makes you think that the government will be worse at looking after your data than Facebook/google...?!

Fair enough if you have a legitimate reason for not wanting it...doesn't seem you do, bet you think 5G caused Covid too...

Because you have more data exposed on here, Facebook, Google, email , your sat nav. Than on a blue tooth app

Vulnerable people need to isolate. The rest of us need to get on with it. No, the rest of us need to do what we can to reduce the overall risk so that the vulnerable can come out of house arrest, even if only to a limited extent.

@CockCarousel no they didn't, do you people not fact check anything?

Google etc have WAY more information about you and the American intelligence service will too via those medium. I’d be more worried about that and the masses of manipulative marketing that goes on without us even realising it. Track and trace will help save lives. It’s a civic duty. Sadly we haven’t seen much of that at the top so I doubt it will be a success. Hope I’ll be proved wrong!

I was going to... until this last week...

I don't want to be on lockdown forever so if this is the way out, I'll take it.

Tabulahrasa: I rest my case.

Thinking the app gives away any more info than you're already providing via google, facebook, ANY other app etc etc is so ludicrous it's embarrassing.

"There’s fuck all chance I’m going to isolate for 14 days unless I’m feeling unwell."

So you'll knowingly spread it around?

MereDintofPandiculation: totally agree

The app only has the first part of your postcode. The rest is location services. If you have a smart phone they know exactly where you are anyway, should they want to. If you use Facebook, they know far more about you than this app will tell them.
I’ll download it when it’s operational. I want out of this.

Yes this. How many people who refuse to 'hand over' their personal data have smart phones with Google, Facebook, etc on them? The government knows where I live, what I earn, when and where I was born, my children's details, where I work. Amazon knows my shopping preferences. Facebook and Google have teamed up to target me with the ads they know I want based on my browsing history (wine and beer deliveries if anyone's interested).

This is what getting back to normal looks like. When you look at all of those countries that are getting their economy going again, and you want some of that - this is how we get there.

@Msmcc1212

Tabulahrasa: I rest my case.

Not in a - weird defiant way btw.

But because I’m now going, um... nope don’t trust you.

There’s fuck all chance I’m going to isolate for 14 days unless I’m feeling unwell.
Then frankly you’re a selfish arsehole who obviously doesn’t care about prolonging a pandemic, potentially extended or creating the need for further lockdowns and risking infecting people. But as long as you’re ok, eh?

Why are people so scared of technology?

It's pointless going on about data held by Amazon etc. The point is that this app is not tried and tested and there is no logical reason why we have not followed other countries' leads and opted for apps with better protection. Most significantly, it is in the control of a company run by Cummings' mates. Not only does it stick in the gullet that millions of pounds of public money has been shovelled their way, but I really don't trust any of them with my personal data.

You do know that tracers will still contact you even without the app, op?

The App has only been trialled on Isle of Wight so far I thought? I don’t think it’s available for wider download?

If they government already have access to this information, what's the point of the app?
Governments, including ours, are not in the habit of rolling back powers, but they will build on what's already there.

A couple of people I know are going to use one of their old handsets, do a factory reset and buy one of those cheap SIM cards you can buy in shops.

I won't be using it as I work in a school and suspect that bored kids will log themselves as symptomatic to trigger an alert to everyone who'd been near them, meaning I'll be spending the next 2 years in isolation after isolation after isolation. The anonymity of it is the problem as you don't really know if an alert through the app is genuine or not.

@CockCarousel and there I was thinking it was Joe from Eastenders who inspired the tinfoil hat phrase

The only way to get rid of this virus is by complying. Why wouldn’t you? Because it’s ‘Tory’? Fucking disgrace. It really is

You think the government doesn't already have all your information? 😅 I think maybe you're being a bit naive if so. I probably won't download as I have only left the house 4 times since lockdown but I would have no issue with it otherwise.

@HarrietSchulenberg

I won't be using it as I work in a school and suspect that bored kids will log themselves as symptomatic to trigger an alert to everyone who'd been near them, meaning I'll be spending the next 2 years in isolation after isolation after isolation. The anonymity of it is the problem as you don't really know if an alert through the app is genuine or not.

That is absolutely not how it works. At all.