Will you download the app?

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The contact tracing app that identifies if you have been in contact with someone who becomes infected?

The default settings on a Google account are very invasive of privacy, but it's possible to turn off things like location tracking, personalised adverts and search history storage. You can also do things like use a VPN and change its location regularly, or go through your phone settings snd revoke things like camera and microphone access.

I think that these big companies want to have all our data, but they leave options open for the privacy-conscious, because they'd rather not lose you as a user altogether.

The fact that Apple/Google want this tracking app to be decentralised and the government don't means I trust them more in this particular instance, yes. Especially after that reported comment that ministers might want the option of de-anonymising data later if the situation calls for it.

@longearedbat I imagine most adults have smartphones nowadays?

I can only assume if you do not have a smartphone, then you would need to write down your ID card number on a form and sign consent for this to be shared before entry - this was already the case at government-run leisure centres anyway as long ago as February (your temperature would also be taken and recorded on the form). It's only now that the two things - temperature and ID - are being submitted separately, and at supermarkets (the leisure centres are all now closed of course).

No definitely not. I wouldn't trust anything that Dominic Cummings has involvement with.

Yes

You may need to accept this as the new normal, in the same way that we had to accept lockdown

Lockdown isn't invasive of our privacy. Lockdown doesn't track our every move and store sensitive personal data about us to be shared with (or stolen by) god knows who.

@Limpshade lots of adults don't have smartphones, including DH and several of his friends.

I guess it’s a trade off isn’t it? The countries who have a handle on this and have done contact tracing and testing have a handle on the virus and have come out of lockdown earlier. In fact some of them didn’t even need a lockdown. So what some may see as an invasion of privacy has led to more freedom overall.

We’ve seen how successful contact tracing and tracing is. If we don’t do this we’ll have a longer lockdown or keep going in. and out of lockdown. I wouldn’t be worried about my privacy then as we’ll all be stuck inside for months anyway...

@QuimJongUn well then they won't be able to use an app then, will they. Not sure what your point is! I'm pretty sure I wrote "most", not "all" anyway. Sigh. Good luck everyone.

Ringthebells "If you have an iPhone, Apple have your info anyway."

if Bluetooth and GPS etc is switched off, how much info do they get? Just curious. I have an iPad, but obviously it doesn't go anywhere at the moment!!

"Interesting that people on here trust Apple and Google with their info more than the UK government subject to UK law."

Cambridge Analytica were a British company, were they not? The current Government has shown how much contempt it has for UK law.

Yes Definitely