Will you sign up for the NHS contact tracing app?

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I can't see any reason why I wouldn't. Has anyone got any concerns about it?

Yes we are already watched - never take your phone with you when you're committing a crime they'll find you

What @Klouise777 said

What is human contact traces? Is that not the same thing?

Yes I will.
There’s plenty out there already that can track us in this way should they wish to so the privacy aspect really doesn’t bother me, I’m not really interesting enough!

Yes just don't take your phone with you if you go digging or dogging. Sorted.

Naive to imagine the government don't have capacity to use surveillance data to harm individuals.
www.globalgovernmentforum.com/unions-slam-uks-1980s-civil-service-blacklist/
www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-trade-unions-latest-special-branch-blacklist-support-group-ipcc-construction-industry-a8270036.html%3famp

Sorry typo, actual people working to trace contacts rather than using tech. In South Africa they're having great success using health workers to trace contacts of people who test positive. Using people who would normally work in sexual health

yes

Yes, of course. It’s in everyone’s interests to do so. The fact that I’m far too boring to be having an affair or dogging or shagging randoms from Tinder or clandestinely working for the FSB may be a factor in my willingness...

But in the news item about South Korea they showed how they would pick up people who had been sitting next to someone who was infected in a cafe. How does that work with a person doing the tracing? The person who is ill won’t know the stranger sitting behind them.

Or does the human use things like CCTV to try and track someone? Surely easier and quicker to use an app!

People answering simply 'no' or any variation of, could you elaborate why? I'm genuinely interested as I would like to be able to make an informed decision when the time comes. I haven't given it any thought whatsoever up until now, and I would feel iffy just going off official sources as I know they'll be keen for us all to use it

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....but my current gut feeling is that, yes I'll be using it, which is why I'm so interested in people who aren't

My answer is no. My reasons are twofold:

1. I don't like being tracked for anything, privacy, security etc.
2. Because of the above I have a phone which make calls and does texts only. It doesn't have apps, they can't be installed, isn't connected to the internet. To be honest I wouldn't know how to install an app even if I did. I am fed up with everyone assuming that the whole world has a smart phone and everyone knows what to do with an 'app'

In theory, I'm in favour of an app used in conjuction with well-trained contact tracers and easily available testing. But I'm not keen on using the centralised app proposed by the government. Virtually all other European countries are developing decentralised apps.

I'm undecided.

I'd like to know - for real - why the govt haven't gone with the much more privacy conscious option developed by Apple and Google. If there's a legitimate reason, and a guarantee that I can delete the app and all my data from all servers when the height of the crisis had passed, I will download it. If their reason is 'we don't exactly know why we need to store all that data centrally, but it might be useful later?' then I would be very worried.

I work with big data and it is so, so powerful, it is structurally biased and I do not trust this government and its corporate cronies to see my data as anything other than a valuable asset. So I'm not handing it over unless I really believe there's no other option.

No chance

Yes, because it will help get this country up and running again to some degree. If everyone said no then wouldn't we be in lockdown for longer?

Also we're probably being tracked all the time anyway. Doubt that one app will make much of a difference to that side of things

**guiltandchocolate

I’d be worried about if at some point some kind of quarantine would be introduced for those who are carrying it/positive**

Are you for real?! Of course someone who tests positive should be made to quarantine themselves!
I will absolutely use the app and cannot understand why others wouldn’t. An app cannot control people! And I really couldn’t care less if anyone knows I went to the supermarket at ten past three. Why on earth is this invading my privacy?!

No but only because I do not have smart phone!!!!! If I did I would.

Yes I am for real. I should have clarified that I meant quarantine away from the home
Obviously staying at home is essential but I’d be worried at some point those who are positive may be quarantined outside of the home that plus my knowledge of incorrect test results on many occasions really concerns me

I can’t see anyone being made to quarantine outside the home, that doesn’t happen now. Surely it’s better to alert people if they have been near a positive case?

I'm happy to have it, not bothered about being tracked/privacy; especially with something like this. But I still don't really understand how it works. Do you think it will be easy to understand? Or does that not matter? I'm more interested in human error than anything.

I feel a bit dim saying this but presumably others will be unsure?

I agree with PP. I'd consider it if it was decentralised but not if it is centralised. I hope they change their minds on that.

No

No I won’t be. Wouldn’t trust it to give correct information